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Deje Que los Niños jueguen: Mar Reggio Inspirado: Materiales De Juego

Be Reggio Inspired: play materials,. I really gotta / will start collecting these . Love reggio What a great "Creation Station"!

This post has some great ideas for weaving activities for young children

::: Could also use in small pieces to fit on shelves. :::: Let the children play: weaving activities for young children. Attach chicken wire or plastic netting to friendly loom for the little ones to weave on.

When I see images like this, I ask myself: "How did/does the teacher(s) help to deepen this kind of amazing play? Some of my pre-K students would LOVE this and totally 'get it', but others of them would simply throw rocks! There has to be a way to inspire this type of deep play...and I WILL find it!"

let the children play: learning spaces in reggio emilia inspired preschools. Like the green pebbles for grass and blue for water!

Make Tinker Trays

I started a new job last week. I am the new atelierista (art teacher) at a Reggio based preschool close to where I live and I just love love love it! Reggio is a play based approach that I learned about several years ago and immediately fell in love

if only i were an art education major still... i would die to have my classroom look like this. in some type of fairy wonder world... </3

let the children play: Reggio-inspired preschool ateliers

from Flickr

ways to store loose parts outdoors -- from Jenny Kable's excellent blog "let the children play"

let the children play: How do you organise your loose parts outdoors?

loose parts. Great idea for rainy/bad weather days, brain breaks, and/or treasure chest rewards!

“Loose Materials” are powerful in provoking children to think and construct knowledge. Their very suggestive nature calls the childre.

Reggio Emilia Preschool Activities | Reggio Emilia: Child Art - Fairy Dust Teaching

Reggio Inspired: Child Art

Ask parents to donate botte caps and/or buttons. and create a collarborative art project! Reggio Emilia: Child Art - Fairy Dust Teaching- thinking we can do a group project with our recycled pouch lids

let the children play: Be Reggio Inspired: Learning Experiences

Setting up experiences, Reggio style

Picture Frames and Loose Parts

Get away from a cookie-cutter, end-product mentality and promote creativity!

Transforming our Learning Environment into a Space of Possibilities: Our story of transformation continues. Could also do with small & medium rocks/loose parts

Loose Parts Creation, "The Path in the Forest" (from Reggio Kids / Extraordinary Classroom)

"The path in the forest is filled with trees. In the springtime the colors come out because in the winter when it's cold the trees sleep.

The Chocolate Muffin Tree: Rock Tower Bakery. Rocks make wonderful natural math manipulatives.

Putting glue to good use as children learn to work with it. The "glue table" becomes a beautiful work of collage!

Collage = I SPY Activity: Collage / Take Pictures / Have kids find items Inspired by Teacher Tom: Loving Them To Pieces

Natural Playthings

Natural Playthings (blocks) I want these for the kids.