Loving Loose Parts Day 15

Day Fifteen

Loose parts are a great way to invite learning into your classroom environment.  So let’s talk about how we can add loose parts for inviting learning in your classroom environment.
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Simon Nicholson believed that we are all creative and that “loose parts” in an environment will empower our creativity.

Loose parts will provide children with opportunities to…

• Inspiring Imagination
• Inviting Creativity
• Chance to Think
• Develop Mathematical Thinking
• Constructive Engineering
• Problem Solving
• Provide them with ways to learn in their own unique ways.
• Leads to exploration naturally.

Loose parts are materials that can be…

• Moved
• Carried
• Combined
• Lined Up
• Taken Apart
• Put back Together
• Tinkered With
• Manipulated

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Extraordinary Classroom

​The beautiful thing about loose parts is that they can be turned into anything.  A wood round can be a plate or a drum set, pine cone can be a tree or vegetables and match box can be turned into a dolls bed.  The possibilities are endless.
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When environments are rich in loose parts children can manipulate their own environment, take risks which will lead to a decline in unwanted behaviors.   
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When children interact with loose parts, they entered a world of “what if” that promotes the type of thinking that leads to problem solving.​

-Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky  from Loose Parts Inspiring Play in Young Children ​

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​Task:
Think about your learning centers and where you would like to use loose parts.  Make a list of the loose parts that you would like to add to that area and pass out that list to co-workers and parents.
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