Tag: Loose Parts
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10/28/2025 | Play And The 8 Sensory Systems
Description From squishing sticky sensory play concoctions to spinning on the swings, play helps children wire and connect their brains and nervous systems. This session examines how that process works, looks at the body’s 8 sensory systems, and offers ideas for supporting play that nourishes those systems. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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09/30/2025 | Do It Yourself Early Learning
Description Based on our books, Do It Yourself Early Learning and Everyday Early Learning, the session takes a hands-on look at dozens of ideas for using materials from your local home center, grocery store, big box store, dollar store, or recycling bin to promote child-directed play, exploration, discovery, and learning. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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09/02/2025 | Reimagining Your Dramatic Play Space
Description Dramatic play is often confined to a classroom corner with a table, a kitchen set, plastic food, and a few baby dolls. Such setups are fine, but dramatic play can be so much more. This session highlights ways to reimagine and support vibrant dramatic play spaces. We’ll dig into ways to create reinvigorated, child-led,…
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08/12/2025 | Do It Yourself Early Literacy
Description This session discusses simple and practical ideas for helping children build early literacy skills. We’ll look at a bunch of ideas for making books, discuss how active physical play helps prepare kids to read and write, look at play-based ways to help grow vocabularies, and touch on other ideas for supporting literacy skill-building in…
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08/05/2025 | Establishing A Tinkering Space
Description This session looks at setting up a creative space for kids to tinker, create, muck about, and build with loose parts. Whether they’re building spaceships, zombie traps, or the world’s tallest cardboard box tower, such play offers a learning-rich creative outlet. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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07/22/2025 | Building Early Math Skills With Play
Description This training offers ideas for supporting the development of 11 early math skills through child-directed play. We’ll define each of the 11 skills, look at how children develop them while playing, and share ideas for building math-friendly play environments. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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07/15/2025 | Playing With Measuring
From beakers to yardsticks, supporting play with measuring tools is a great way to help children bump into opportunities for STEM learning–and lots of other learning. This training looks at the value of measuring play, recommended measuring tools, and ideas for supporting child-led measurement play. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance