They explored different shells and we talked about what used to live inside the shells. The children loved listening to the sea! The children used the shells to make patterns in clay and these were then painted in pearlised paints to represent the beautiful colours of the seaside. 

 

A rockpool was created in the garden using shells, pebbles, gravel and lots of sea life creatures and with lots of boats bobbing along on the water. The children then made ocean waves using foam, shower gel and shampoo whilst exploring the smells and singing about the whooshing waves like in our song for the Pre-Prep Celebrations next week. Quite a few of the children will have come home smelling like they had had a bath at Nursery!

Water ramps were made for the boats using the gutters to pour water behind the boats to see which ones reached the sea first - lots of soggy wet fun! 

 

The children were busy making a seaside collage using scissors to cut around the things we find at the beach - the ice cream van was voted the best picture, of course! Sandpaper starfish were decorated with sticky glue and glitter to make sparkling starfish from the rockpool and fish were decorated with gems and sparkly collage to create rainbow fish. 

 

Our resident gardener has been busy looking after our flowers and beans by carefully watering them with the hosepipe - don't they look wonderful! And Mr Phil kindly filled our sandpit with lots of new sand, so we had lots of fun making a huge mountain of sand!