My first LIVE online gig for nearly two years. Grab it, quick!
A 1,000 words on why we might not see 'collectables' based play like marbles and jacks being played as often as in the past. "When I was at school I distinctly remember playing seasonal games with ‘collectables’. Mainly this involved games of marbles, played strictly during ‘marble season’ only you understand, although at home we played jacks often as my mother was an absolute expert at the game."
A biographical short on one of my most prized possessions and why I've hold of it for so long.
"The vast majority of our most precious childhood items tend not to survive into adulthood, though, because the most important things to us at the time tended to be rather simple and ephemeral."
900 words about the confusion some find over using loose parts and how that relates to 'open-endedness'. The first of a two-part blog.
a \‘shȯrt-rēd’\ piece
"By definition an object, whether a loose part or not, cannot be ‘open-ended’."
"Anyone who works with children, particularly younger children, knows that some of the objects that find there way into pockets no matter how small or seemingly incidental are clearly more than meaningless."
This piece links one particular element of children's play with mysticism and the importance of objects in children's lives. A psychologist gets a mention ... but not in a good way.
QUESTION - What things have you been brought by children? What objects have you seen them collect and keep? How have they used these things?
