Look at our classrooms full of bright colored, plastic toys, with predetermined uses. Bright, obnoxious lighting, that over stimulates children and staff.
Even our ideas of art, often craft in nature, does not equal the best for children. Children really want to explore and impact their world, they want to know WHY and WHAT IF.
Recently I had a parent offer to spend the day at school with us. He arrived with long sections of PVC pipes and joins used to connect the pipes. He even brought and gifted us with a PVC pipe cutter, safer than a haxsaw.
The morning was full of sharing pipes, helping the dad carry, cut and stack the pipes. Then he posed a question and the room exploded, “Do you have marbles?”
Spontaneous combustion, as the room became an anthill full of
One child caught a marble in a metal bowl from house keeping.
The marble exploded into the bowl with a tinkling of sound and then took off in a swirl of noise as centrifical force was discovered, move over Isaac Newton.
So while we plan hours and dollars on the best gifts for holidays and birthdays and items we think our classroom needs don’t forget, so much more takes place from the simple.
Fill your room with:
- PVC pipes
- blow joints
- Rocks (all sizes)
- Wood Cookies
- Beads
- Pine cones
- Napkin rings
- Scarves
- Fabric
- Yarn
- Boxes
- What ever your heart can dream up
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