2. Materials Available In The Sandbox
•Dramatic play toys
•Shovels
•Scoops
•Toys that makes patterns in the sand
•Unbreakable containers
3. Diversity of Toddlers Playing
•Build things with the toys and the sand
•Let the sand run through their hands
•Put sand in buckets with a cup of water
•Make shapes with the toys and the sand
•Working their muscles
4. Skills and Abilities children develop
•They learn:
•Water is Liquid
•Sand is a solid
•Raking sand up with the shoveled
•Shapes
•Colors
•Sharing
5. Teacher’s Role
•Prepared to be flexible
•Keeping the children safe
•Set the water center up safe
•Cover the floor with a protective mat to
reduce falls
•Provide the materials to use
•Supervise all children
6. Four Milestones a Exceptional child develops
• Eye Movement
• Standing
• Crawling
• Walking
• Sitting up right
Teachers help the children out by making sure they
are doing the right thing inside the sandbox. Helping
them keep their balance and their focus why they
perform their milestones.
7. Four Milestones a Toddler develops
• Squatting to pick up toys
• Pushing and pulling on the toys
• Communication with each other
• Muscle skills by lifting the toys
• Teachers be on stand by to help the children by
making sure their balance is straight, they spill
anything be sure to clean it up. Making them feel
strong by picking up the sand, buckets and more play
items working their muscles.
8. Time Requirement
The time requirement, for at least one
hour daily.
Water or sand play must be accessible to
children every day.
9. Different Activities
• Children must have different experience in the sand play
• Tools to make differing designs in sand provided
• Small animal toys used
• Cars and trucks
• Children must have different experience in the water play
• Bubbles
• Shells or toy sea creatures
• Color
10. Variety
• Variety may be represented in characteristics of toys, such as use,
size, transparency, shape, color, or challenge level.
• If both sand and water are accessible, variety in toys must be
provided for both, but many of the same toys can be used for both
sand and water play.
• Variety in toys does not have to be provided all at one time.
• Examples of sand toys most often observed include:
• Measuring cups and other unbreakable containers,tubes, molds,
shovels, scoop, trowels..
11. Milestone of Child Development
• Relationships with others
• Learning about self (self-Concept)
• Emotion Regulation and Self-Regulation
• Spatial Sense
• Data collection and analysis
• Time and Sequence
12. General Information
• Sand and water play are not required for children under 18 months
• Sand and water play provide learning while begin stress-reducing
activities.
• The provisions/ materials must be stored somewhere in the center so
that they can be easily made accessible for use by the children.
• Staff should carefully consider what things to use as sand substitutes.
• Staff should closely supervise both sand and water play because of
the potential dangers.
• The staff have to be close proximity to children participating in the
activity.
• Staff should be arm reach to make sure the children don’t drink or fall
