Water And Sand Play

[Guest terrydoo73]

Can anyone help me with a suggestion for both sand and water play in relation to a farm theme we are doing.

 

We have gone done the line of colouring the water green for this month (being St Patricks Day this week!) but are not getting the same interest around the tray.

 

Was wondering if I should maybe get some weeds from pet shop as well as pebbles and put the toy ducks in there - what do you think?

 

We wet our sand this month to give a difference from watching the dry sand going through funnels and sieves and added some horses. Any suggestions what we could do to enhance it further?

 

Was thinking maybe tractors with loaders/shovels and trailers attached to them? Any suggestions would be very helpful.

[AnonyMouse_30147]

How about....

 

Building bricks in the water with animals at one side and they have to try and get the animals across the river to the next field, or you may find they just like bathing the animals!

 

Ours like dry oats with the tractors and animals, they feed them, transport the food etc and use it as animal bedding and muck them out!

Edited March 16, 2011 by suebear