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Exploring ideas and materials
Playful Minds projects allow space for exploring their own ideas and discovering new materials; the result is more confident children and often an improvement in language as they use words to describe their new experiences. I am still working on … Continue reading
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Tagged creative play, exploring, materials, Play, thinking
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Building with bamboo – good for the brain!
I love turning up with a flat bundle of bamboo sticks or willow and seeing it transformed in a day into a room full of large creations! This is simple to do and has an amazing effect on group work, … Continue reading
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Tagged bamboo, Group work, play together, school, team building, willow
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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
Is there a place for arts workers in schools after the cut backs?
Sweeping changes in education and arts funding are having a big effect on freelance arts practitioners. I don’t want to get all negative, but having been to a few meetings recently, it seems the changes run deeper than I had imagined. People … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Creative Partnerships, Curriculum, Education, funding
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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
Defining creativity
Creativity is a very popular word these days. It’s everywhere, so you imagine that we all know what we mean by it. When you try to pin the word down to a particular definition though, this is when things get … 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
The Art of Play 