Beautiful Stuff!: Learning with Found Materials - Hardcover

Topal, Cathy Weisman; Gandini, Lella

 
9780871923882: Beautiful Stuff!: Learning with Found Materials

Synopsis

Encourage your kids to express their creativity as they discover, collect, sort, arrange, experiment, and think with found and recyclable &;stuff.&; The real-life experiences of teachers and children will inspire ideas that you can try at home: choose objects and turn them into a display, transform materials into a face, build and glue wood scraps to make constructions. Appropriate for children four years of age and older.

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Synopsis

Exploring materials is an evocative experience. It: Stimulates the imagination; Inspires storytelling and interactions between children; Serves as a bridge to drawing, collage, sculpture, construction. Share the journey of real teachers in a real school who were inspired by educators form Reggio Emilia, Italy. They observed and recorded what happened when the focus is on process rather than product. In Beautiful Stuff, you'll find ideas and suggestions, delights and revelations, doubts, joys, and continual insights. Above all, you'll find approaches to nurturing the innate creativity of children that you can adapt to any teaching situation.

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