Holiday talk had been a big feature of our discussions and lead to us enjoying various beach and sea/ocean-related activities…
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Beach Small World Play
This area has been super popular! I love this background (from TTS) of St. Ives in Cornwall…
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Shells and Ocean Finds on the Discovery Table
As well as collecting my own resources over the years, I have been lucky enough to inherit all sorts of wonderful beach and ocean treasures from my Mum and Great Aunt (both ex Primary School Teachers). There is always so much fascination with these pieces…
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Catching Fish
… with tweezers…
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Ocean Play in the Water Tray
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Holiday Ice Cream Parlour on the Light Panel
… with pom-poms…
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Ocean-Based Maths Opportunities
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Ocean Play & Patterns on the OHP
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Shells and Sea Creatures in the Homemade Mirror Tray
(See here for other DIY resources.)
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Transient Art on a Sea and Beach Background
The girls who helped me make these backgrounds (when in Nursery) are in Year 6 now! They’ve had lots of use over the years and are still going strong…
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Ocean and Beach Dough
… and yes, the dough did get mixed together…
We also got the plastic cones and sundae dishes out and had a bit of play dough ice cream play…
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Shell Patterns
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Shell Patterns Outdoors
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Game Board & Ocean Beads
Thanks for reading and sorry for the lack of posts at the moment! I have a few lined up but have hit a technical hitch since I upgraded my site and my posts are not emailing out to my subscribers. I wasn’t going to publish anymore until I had got to the bottom of it, but I’m so busy at school that I haven’t had time to look into it, so I thought I’d post one now anyway.

“I made a pattern!”
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Would love you to come & say hello! 🙂
– Rachel (“,)

We still have a few fairies out…
My comment should end with ‘looks like lots of fun in the sun!’
Thanks Gill. It’s a bit belated, but better late than never! 😉