CM Club:I need to pick your brains about Outdoor Learning please.

[Katymac]

I may be able to access some funding for outdoor learning (not because of childminding I don't think it's another pot)

But I have to buy stuff, not things I can make stuff with or people to do stuff just things I can buy from high street shops and no plants - which makes things quite difficult.

So I need idea on how to develop outdoor learning and to know what works well in your outdoor spaces in order to plan my proposal

I will also be posting on the Gardening bit to get extra ideas

okay good idea

what about a stage or dais for declaiming/performing from?

(just a bit of raised decking a meter x 2 metres)

Like guttering but I'm not sure where

I also need (not from the grant) some 2ft square plastic tubs?

We have a deck 4m by 5m

Tools from Garden Tools

sorry Katy, going too fast

I have got these, v sturdy and a rake not on the website at the mo

this looks good too

ooh nick they look great

thermometer

what about a Weather Station??

Fabulous ideas - Thanks to both of you

any time x x x

Not sure you will have any luck finding 2ftx2ft plastic tubs. I've been looking a while and not finding anything suitable.

60cm x 60cm x 7am Tray - guess you want something deeper though.

Thanks Nick - but would need to be deeper

I have 4 wooden ones atm but they are rotting

60cm x 60cm x 60cm potato planter - again probably not what you are wanting.

What are the tubs for? Do they have to be plastic?

Well I don't want wooden ones again as they rot

We plant strawberries & tomatoes & a dwarf apple in them

& the holes they sit on/in (on the patio/lawn) are 60cm squre

Zinc Coated Steel but they are £55 each.

gulp

I am rubbish with dimensions but ikea sell massive outdoor plastic pots now!

Not on-line ....thanks

I've recently had my Ofsted inspection and she loved the fact that the children could play with lenghts of guttering, they had child sized watering cans, outdoor blackboards, threading trellis (trellis with lots of ribbons to thread), cut off pieces of log to use as building blocks and an area to grow their own veg.
The rest of the garden is grassed with a playhouse and a sandpit.
I don't even have a slide, swing or trampoline.
Also, it's good to have some bamboo poles and old sheeting or blankets to make dens.

These are all things I have or want to add

I have a wigwam which we cover, barristers for threading, we are ordering tools & a sandpit, adapting blackboard to go outside, Nick suggested guttering.....I just need to find somewhere to put it & we have some logs we are going to smooth off for seating (I can order some for other things)

The grant application has to go in tomorrow - any more?

could you buy large storge tubs

i go to ikea all the time if you wanted me to look and courier some pots onto you i can?

If they have the bit pots (60 cm square) I will come & buy them myself (we have family close by) - so just let me know

oh ok :D im hoping to go this weekend ut if not very soon, ill let you know what goodies i find, i love ikea, very inspirational!

I agree - Thank you