ABSTRACT
The term “Wave Play” describes the fluid nature of the socio-dramatic role-play as the children move their play resources and themes from locality to locality within the setting. The confined space in many permanent settings impacts on and can impede children’s play opportunities. Play can become static and hindered by the poverty of space made available to the children. The outdoor environment often means another space that the practitioner is responsible for planning and the connection between the indoor and outdoor environment can be difficult to create. The choosing to take a play theme from inside the setting to the outdoor environment demonstrated that they were continuing the theme rather than abandoning it and that they could make links between what had occurred indoors and what they were doing outside. The scenarios used in this chapter provide evidence of this in the ways in which the children engaged collaboratively and used the physical spaces in ways that they choose.
