Guidance to Play
When you watch children play with Imagination Playground, your first question may be: what are they doing? But the better question may be: what are they learning? Here you’ll learn how to spot examples of productive play and see what children of different ages can learn. The more you understand what you see, the more you’ll realize that Imagination Playground blocks provide opportunities for so much more than play.
These games create opportunities to negotiate rules among themselves.
The potential movement of parts adds interest and story to the child’s play.
Children go beyond building, treating the blocks as props with symbolic status.
When a child adds an accent, she reveals in what way she thought the structure was incomplete.
Structures with repeated intervals require a form of mathematical thinking.
Finding the fall limits of structures help children think about the dynamics of structure.
Some research suggests that the symmetrical structures embody a form of mathematical thinking.
Of all the Loose Parts, the cylinder-shaped plug has a strong identity appeal.
Balls transform the static beauty of a structure into a system of causes that direct the movement of the ball.