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Sand Tray Free Play

Sand Tray Free Play

Learning Goals: Child-directed Play, Creativity, Fine-motor skills, Social Learning

Provide a set of trays and a variety of wood toys/objects with dice.

Fill trays with sand.

Encourage the students to develop their own play context and negotiate rules.
Trays

Wood toys,

Small wood blocks

Dice

Sand
The play is initiated and directed by the students.

The materials are provided and set-up in such as way as to invite the students to explore the center as the educators observe.

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