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Imaginative Play Playing with Tanbark
- Functions
- Imaginary Play and Play with Equipment/Props
- Alternative Names
- Cupcakes (At School 05)
Playing with tanbark provides the inspiration for imaginary play.
Details
At School 05
Players: 2
Girls
Age: 5
Props: Tan bark
Two girls playing with tan bark under play equipment (shade cloth area). Involves clearing tan bark to expose bare earth and banking up the bark to circle the small cleared areas. There is use of Thomas the Tank Engine cards for this process. Play is called 'cupcakes'. AREA U.
Players: 5
Girls
Age: 9
Props: Tan bark
Girls are sitting down on artificial turf, talking and passing single pieces of tanbark and small stones to each other. They progress to another area of the turf, stand in a circle after gathering small handfuls of tanbark which they begin playing with. AREA W
Players: 3
Girls
Age: 5
Props: Tan bark
Girls are sitting under the platform of the playground equipment playing in the tanbark. They are heaping the tanbark and making 'mountains'. AREA:U
Players: 2
Boys
Age: 7-8
Props: Tan bark
Boys are sitting on edging surrounding the playground equipment playing in the tan bark and digging with small sticks. They are digging to China and also making the 'Wall of Australia'. AREA:U
At School 07
A child playing with tanbark at School 07 Primary school was able to see a dragon's head in a piece of it.