This month in School Age 3, the group showed interest in creating anything with the implementation of loose parts. It all started with the sushi restaurant, finding empty bottles to use as bottles for soya sauce and wasabi sauce. Finding a box to use for a sushi board filled with different types of sushi created from different coloured paper.
Ella, Avery, Lucy and Kaelyn then engaged in a role playing experience where they were pretending to adopt a baby. Lucy, engaging her creativity and exploration, decided to create a baby using cardboard for the body and paper for the head stuffed with cotton balls to make it more 3D like. They added yarn to create hair for the baby and created baby accessories for it as well, such as a bottle, bed and baby food. Emily used materials, like beads, yarn, pom poms, popsicle sticks and feathers to create a fidget board on a piece of scrap cardboard.
The boys were interested in drawing and creating characters from a video game called singing monsters. They drew a blueprint of what they wanted to create and created a list of what they will need to create this game.
This type of engaging experiences shows that using simple odds and ends around the center can be used in many different ways, and how it can help your imagination into reality.
