- Outdoor activity requires energy and often helps children utilise their gross and fine motor skills.
- Play activity is a crucial factor in enriching children’s experience and enhancing their development and creativity. They expand their logical skills when they play with different materials such as blocks, clay, sand, water and soil.
- Through play, children develop representational competence, oral language and narrative understanding, positive approaches to learning, self-regulation and social negotiation.
- Children enjoy using play equipment and the challenges it offers, such as climbing, swinging, sliding and rotating, which are not easy to provide through other means.
- The Early Years Foundation Stage Framework recommends that being outdoors has a positive impact on children's sense of well-being and helps all aspects of children's development.
