Oasis Sandworks

Sand crane

Physical: Hoisting the basket up and down trains arm muscles and dexterity.

Social-emotional: Cooperating with others e.g. receiving the bucket trains cooperation skills.

Cognitive: Understanding the mechanism of the chains hoisting buckets up and down supports logical thinking skills.

Creative: Working with moveable play items that can leave a mark supports the child’s creativity.

Sand desk with funnel

Social-emotional: Children can gather and store materials, cooperate and take a break together.

Cognitive: Sand can be shifted through the funnel, for understanding of 'cause and effect' and object permanence: that materials don’t vanish but run through at the other end.

Slope

Physical: Inclined crawling or walking up or down develops the sense of balance and cross coordination.

Social-emotional: The inclination makes climbing feel secure, especially for younger children.

Supportive handholds

Physical: handhold provides good grip for less confident climbers. Trains upper body muscles.

Sand wheel

Cognitive: the turning sand wheel stimulates cause and effect understanding.

Sand shovel

Physical: Develops dexterity and upper body muscles.

Cognitive: Understanding of object permanence, emptying and filling scoop.