All timbers are UK Pine, sourced within the UK from FSC approved suppliers and pressure treated with a chrome-free and arsenic free preservative. Again, fellow villager Julie and her son joined us in the mayhem and we spent a rather enjoyable afternoon together making a Water Wall. Let the combination of imaginative play and physical health transform your children’s playground into a natural and engaging active zone! This can be helpful for self-care tasks like teeth-brushing, opening packets of food, or feeding themselves. Use the Water Spout as a continual supply controlled by a tap at the top of the post, or use it to flow water down the wall and fill up your tubs, buckets or jugs ready for pouring back down again by hand.

Children can merge, measure and pour water, to spot the drips and drops, and the ways in which the water flows. A homemade water wall is the perfect summer activity for multiple age, plus it offers some great learning benefits. The individual pieces of guttering are mounted onto a high quality magnetic panel, which challenge the children to control the water flow from start to finish. To avoid this happening I recommend using a spray lacquer or sealant to waterproof these vulnerable areas before attaching to the wall.It makes a great STEM activity, teaching kids about gravity, angles and water flow, and it’s a great water activity to keep kids cool on a hot day. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank you and your team for all your help and assistance over the last 12 months.

It has been proven that play-based learning allows children to pick up on key elements of educational practices. Edit- having played with our water wall all summer I noticed some of the acrylic coating was coming off from around the holes.

Ideas if You Can’t Leave Resources Outside — Creative STAR Learning | I'm a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here! It keeps them entertained for hours, scooping and pouring water over and over again, watching the water travel through the various pathways I’ve configured for them.