How this product aligns with the EYLF
Supporting creativity and self-expression
The Natureplay Free Standing Outdoor Easels provide children with diverse surfaces to explore their artistic abilities. By engaging with the blackboard, whiteboard, and perspex surfaces, children can express their ideas and emotions through various forms of art, fostering their creativity and self-expression.
Building language, imagination, and social skills
The easels encourage collaborative play and communication among children as they share ideas and create together. By using the boards to write letters or create stories, children enhance their language skills while developing their imagination and social interactions within a supportive learning environment.
Relevant EYLF Outcomes
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators
Classroom, Play Activity & Provocation Ideas
Classroom & Learning Area Ideas
Set up the easels in a designated art area where children can freely create and display their artwork, promoting a sense of ownership and pride in their creations.
Integrate the easels into a literacy corner, allowing children to practice writing letters, words, or stories, enhancing their language development.
Play-Based Activity Ideas
Encourage children to collaborate on a large mural using the whiteboard surface, fostering teamwork and creative expression.
Organise a storytelling session where children illustrate their stories on the easels, promoting narrative skills and imaginative play.
Provide different materials such as chalk, markers, and paint for children to explore various artistic techniques on the easels.
Provocation Ideas
Introduce a theme, such as “nature,” and invite children to create artworks inspired by their outdoor experiences, using the easels as a canvas for their ideas.
Challenge children to create a community map on the easels, encouraging them to think about their environment and how they interact with it.
