Mark Making Outdoors (Ideas pack)

Use Mark Making Outdoors (Ideas pack) to help children get used to using their hands to make marks in creative ways using nature. The outside space is the most perfect place for developing fine motor skills. Use this mark-making pack to get inspiring ideas on how you can naturally develop this skill.

Find even more inspiration in our EYFS Outdoor learning activities, or explore additional messy messy mark making ideas EYFS

Here are 3 top outdoor learning eyfs ideas :

1. Set a time each day to do your outdoor play
2. Make it messy and muddy – why not your outside!
3. Stick to natural resources – less clearing up for you and more kind to the environment.

Our muddy resources support all curriculums and we use only natural resources so any school, anywhere can use our approach. Including Early Years Framework, NC, CfE, American Curriculums.

Outdoor learning in primary schools is an essential way to bring wellbeing to the classroom.

Here are some muddy top tips to make a start in each key stage.

• Outdoor Learning KS2 – Try taking 10 minute slots or brain breaks in between sessions. Do the Muddy Walk and Talk and just use it for gerberal discussion or chat.
• Outdoor Learning KS1 – Try taking phonics games outside. Choose a sound and use leaves
• Outdoor Learning EYFS – If you can make sure there is an outside space that is accessible and start to reduce the plastic and have more natural objects. Such as leaves they can write on, stones to do art with. Strip back the made plastic objects and keep natural for optimum imagnation and creative skills to be used.
• Outdoor Learning KS2 – Try taking 10 minute slots or brain breaks in between sessions. Do the Muddy Walk and Talk and just use it for gerberal discussion or chat.
• Outdoor Learning KS1 – Try taking phonics games outside. Choose a sound and use leaves
• Outdoor Learning EYFS – If you can make sure there is an outside space that is accessible and start to reduce the plastic and have more natural objects. Such as leaves they can write on, stones to do art with. Strip back the made plastic objects and keep natural for optimum imagnation and creative skills to be used.

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Discover more ideas to help embed the EYFS curriculum outdoors – explore Outdoor Play Ideas.