So, it's midwinter, and if you're a daycare provider, there's a good chance that the doors to your garden are now closed once dusk falls. If dark evenings are scuppering the progress you've made in providing freeflowing indoor-outdoor play, a few simple, low-cost interventions will allow your outdoor space to become usable all day, every day.
Playing out after dark is perfectly possible, and what's more, children of all ages relish the excitement and magic of outdoors after dark. In the UK, dark or dusky early evenings are a feature of at least five months of our year. If we don't enable our children to play out in the twilight, whatever the season, they miss out on the unique learning opportunities that this special part of the day offers.
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