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I’m always looking for new ways for children to move sand and water in the sensory table. Most of the time, sensory table activi...

It’s sometimes hard to know when to talk to a child who is deeply engaged in an activity, and it’s hard to know what to say. We’ve been tr...

“Children learn through play.” “Play is children’s work.”   When we say “children learn through play”, we’re recognizing and acknow...

She pulled the large blocks off the shelf, one by one, dropping them randomly into a pile on the floor. After the first five or six bl...

The kids love it! They have so much fun with this! In conversations with teachers and reading online blogs and comments, these ph...

I’ve written before about the mixed feelings some teachers have about block play – especially “big blocks.” They worry about safety, or ...

This week, I gave a talk about introducing “risky play” in early childhood classrooms. I talked about the situations and reasons that first...

I’ve had a lot of discussions with teachers who are enthused about introducing loose parts to their classroom, but then become frustr...