Compost Bin Fun!

Sometimes even the most mundane objects can provide hours of fun for young children. A few years ago, our local council gave all schools a number of compost bins. A couple were set up in the main school playground but with us having 8 weeks off in the summer it proved too long a period to leave the bins unattended & so it was decided against using them for their intended purpose.
Last year when I spied them sitting in an outdoor store I grabbed 5 & brought them round to the nursery playground. It didn't take long for the children to engage with them & we had weeks of fun playing with them. We decided to keep them as a 3rd term resource as we have bikes for 1st & 2nd term & then in the last term we tend to spread all over the playground with larger resources like the Community Playthings Hollow Blocks & these bins.

When I brought them into the playground on Tuesday, the children fell upon them immediately. At first they climbed in & out of them through the door at the bottom & for some this tiny entrance took a lot of courage to tackle. Others figured out if they took their coats off it was easier to fit inside. It was great to see another class enjoy these resources & the giggles as 2 children crammed into one bin & tried to walk around the space - this took a lot of cooperation & coordination!

Before long someone had tipped a bin over & discovered the joy of rolling about inside it. This class also put one at the bottom of the slide & had a great time flying down the slide into the bin & out the other side!

Then some of them had the idea to join 2 together to make a tunnel, before long they had joined 4 in a row & they spent ages crawling form one end to the other, at times a head would pop up through the door to shout to their friends. They wanted to create a door at the end of the tunnel & figured out the Fafu Poppies were perfect for this purpose. (They did want 5 but the one at the bottom of the slide was not up for grabs)

4 make an even better tunnel experience.

Once again the children proved to me that they don't need expensive resources to have fun.

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