The following topics to explore and investigate are interesting to most young children:
* Minibeasts; growing flowers, vegetables or fruit and eating produce; forces (pushing and pulling, wind power and so on); light and dark (including shadows); colour (in nature, in bubbles or prisms hung outdoors to catch the light); sounds in nature or using recycled materials and the wind.
* Sensory garden or trail.
* Texture trails.
* Resource boxes, such as a windy-day box, to explore features of different weather conditions.
Designing and making
* Scenarios for role play, for example a castle, train, bus, house or den.
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