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"Slides are for going down, not up!" REALLY?
Going up the slide requires a different set of body skills, it requires a different focus. Some children will find it challenging to go up the slide. Some children will find it easy. There will be some negotiation required between children, but you know what? They usually just work it out.
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4 Easy Additions to Enhance Your Block Play Environment
We need to be intentional about how we set up our spaces for block play, about the materials that we use and the way in which children can access them. -
4 Ways to Support Problem Solving Through Loose Parts Play
This post was lost in the archives. Originally published by us in 2020 This week I visited a local service. While I spoke with the approved prov... -
How to Embrace Rainy Day Play
Yesterday morning I sat at my desk watching the kookaburras and the magpies forage in the grass - the incessant rain having bought worms to the surface. And then I spotted her. A child of about three stepped across the soggy grass, her gumboots squelching, toward the birds. -
5 Practical Ways to Support Mud Play
Sometimes I hear from educators that mud play is too much work, that the inevitable clean-up is too hard, that the time spent is too long. But I have to ask the question - what else are we doing that is more important? -
Return, and Return Again: How Revisiting Natural Spaces Benefits Children
What does it mean to return to the same natural spaces again and again with children? How does it benefit them, and the big question - won't they get bored? -
Should we put a stop to end of year gifting?
Well, it's that time of year again. Things are winding down, and the end of year gifts are ramping up. This is the time of year where see some v... -
5 Myths About Infant Outdoor Environments
I remember one of the first services I ever visited as a young student. I headed on into the infant room and was overwhelmed by toys and swings ... -
4 Ways to Support Barefoot Play
I spend a lot of time barefoot. I am barefoot indoors, I am barefoot outdoors, and I prefer to drive with barefeet. This explains how one morning,... -
From Gaming to Games: 4 Ways to Spark Imaginative Play for School Aged Children
** This post was originally written in 2019 and has been updated and resposted ** Two boys arrive at our TimberNook program full of stories of o... -
Lessons In Nature
Right now, in Lake Macquarie, we are in lockdown. As I write this, it is day 6 of 7 (although there is the strong possibility that it won't all ... -
3 Questions not to ask children at play
**This post was originally written in 2018 and has been updated. In early 2018 we launched the first Australian TimberNook program. This amazing p...
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