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Tag Archives: Play
Makedo Kits
A recent discovery is the wonderful world if Makedo, based in Australia Makedo is a connector system that enables materials including cardboard, plastic and fabric to easily join together to form new objects or structures. When you’re done playing, simply pull … Continue reading
Playing by the rules makes prisoners of children
This is not my article but it’s so good I had to post it here. In it, it states that in 2007 when a UNICEF survey rated it among the worst places in the world to grow up. At that … Continue reading
Play and creativity – separate things?
There is an argument that creativity and play are not the same things. I don’t like to separate them and for the purposes of this website I want to include articles on both as I find them closely related and … Continue reading
Can we go out and play? Probably not….
This article came to my attention today The two-year Good Childhood Inquiry is published on Monday. The independent inquiry into the state of childhood today – commissioned by The Children’s Society and carried out by Lord Layard, the Labour peer, … Continue reading
Play IS learning
A video from Joseph Chilton Pearce where he explains his belief that children can only truly learn through playing and that ‘play can be the most serious undertaking in a child’s life’. He argues that schools often interrupt a child’s … Continue reading
Creators not consumers
“Creators not consumers” was the mantra when I first worked with Play.Train in the early 1990′s. What drove us was the wish to encourage young people to recognise and value their own abilities to create, make, do, sing, think and … Continue reading
