learning: Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity as they are curious and enthusiastic participants in their learning. Community: Children can become socially responsible and show respect for their environment as they show growing appreciation and care for natural and constructed environments. Wellbeing: Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing as they regulate their emotions through sensory play. MESSY PLAY FOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN POSSIBLE EYLF LEARNING OUTCOMES Children are active learners and learn through play. Messy play is particularly valuable because it stimulates many of their senses at once. They can feel, smell, see, hear and sometimes even taste the consequences of their messy active play. Your children are doing many things at once when engage in messy play. They can be observing, creating, building, exploring, imagining, discovering, investigating, interpreting and even relaxing. Messy play fosters your child’s curiosity, imagination and experimentation and practices good concentration. When making marks in sand or paint, your child is developing an early form of writing. The high concentration levels needed to explore the different sensory attributes of the objects can contribute to your child’s ability to read a book or