With summer holidays coming to an end, The Yard in Edinburgh was closed in August for essential maintenance for ten days. This gave us a chance to refresh the indoor and outdoor play area and we managed to upgrade our popular bedswing, solardome and sensory room.
Before we closed for maintenance, we celebrated International Playday by holding our very own Hayday, Playday. Our playteam pulled out all the stops to decorate the place with hay bales, wooden horses and cardboard cut outs that made it seem like The Yard had been transported to the Wild West. Our senior playworker Ivan set up a big Teepee structure in the garden. It was a lovely day, and the hay created an amazing play experience for all the children who enjoyed crawling through it, ripping it up or chucking it on each other! We had so much hay we were still playing with it a week later before we called Gorgie Farm who came to take the remaining hay away. It was a great day, and it inspired our playteam to plan lots of fun play sessions for September and October!
