The loose parts at the Shop of Possibilities are in a constant state of reuse, and often at some point their limits will be tested by the children, to the point where they are broken up. This time these two boys got stuck in to smashing up an old wooden structure left over from another project, but this led to some fun sword fighting where old saucepans became protective headgear!
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Staff as Props
It's enjoyable to watch the children using staff in their play. This time they really explored the power shift that this afforded them. What started off with one child, became a group activity where they kept pushing things to see how much the member of staff would let them get away with. However Elijah remained silent throughout the whole thing, even when the children tipped his chair over! Here's some photos of what happened from start to finish:
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Play Pieces: September
Back to school but we're still playing!
We inherited an orca and a dolphin |
Went camping (for about an hour!) |
Lost some people |
Made some unusual seats |
Started a band |
Made a cardboard city for our car |
Covered our hands in chalk... |
...and our face! |
Started another band |
Did some balancing |
Made this unusual thing |
Looked after injured teddy bears |
Played a balancing gladiator game |
Fitted ourselves in a tyre |
Did some serious play with tools... |
...and made a crossbow |
Got a bit sleepy so made a bed |
Did some giant drawings |
Realised that a cardboard tube makes a good telephone |
We wrapped a slide |
Made some stairs |
Held someone captive... |
...then someone else |
Finally we turned ourselves into superheros with some shiny big pants! |
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