learning: Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm,

persistence, imagination and reflexivity as they are curious and enthusiastic participants in their learning.Community: Children can become socially responsible and show respect for their

environment as they

show growing appreciation and care for natural and constructed environments.Wellbeing: Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing as they

regulate their emotions through sensory play.

MESSY PLAY FOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

POSSIBLE EYLF LEARNING OUTCOMES

Children are active learners and learn through play. Messy play is particularly valuable because it stimulates many of their senses at once. They can feel, smell, see, hear and sometimes even taste the consequences of their messy active play. Your children are doing many things at once when engage in messy play. They can be observing, creating, building, exploring, imagining, discovering, investigating, interpreting

and even relaxing.Messy play fosters your child’s curiosity, imagination and experimentation and practices good concentration. When making marks in sand or paint, your child is developing an early form of writing. The high concentration levels needed to explore the different sensory attributes of the

objects can contribute to your child’s ability to read a book or write a story independently later on in life.