Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Hi, I would like to do heuristic play with my two year olds. Does anyone know what would be good resources for this and how much do I neeed? I would lreally welcome some experienced advice and ideas thanks Sunshine
Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 My children have really loved a basket full of indian bangles and a few wooden kitchen roll poles, glass jars with lids and buttons other ideas are cardboard tubes, boxes, large baskets of keys ( i got a huge box full from my local hardware store), wooden curtain rings, lengths of chain etc. I think the more of the same resources you have the better - eg. i've had a collection of a 8 bangles in the treasure basket that have been ignored yet when i offered a basket of about 60 all the children have played with them. I'm not sure what sort of setting your in, I'm a childminder so a bit different for me but if I was in a setting I would remove all the toys and create a sectioned off area and place the materials in accessible baskets and then just observe how the children use them and play alongside them following their lead.
HappyMaz Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 There has been a thread on this recently, sunshine - have you tried a forum search? (click on the 'search forum posts' button top right of screen). Maz
Guest Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 there are also a couple of good websites such as treehugger mums and www.childrenscentres.org.uk and these heuristic_play.pdf Heuristic_play_page.pdf Heuristic_Play.htm
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