Can you help us?

One of our early learners’ aims is to:

“promote active learning and development through indoor and outdoor play, where learners’ curiosity, independence, thinking and creativity is challenged and extended.”

To develop this, we want to extend our use of loose parts!

 

What are “Loose Parts”?

Have you ever given your child an expensive toy, for them to go on to play with the cardboard box?

A cardboard box is an example of a ‘loose part’.

 

And so is a stick!

 

 

Loose parts:

• are materials that when given to our children, they can become anything they wish, from creating and making a robot to constructing their own den.
• can be used freely to create, explore textures and develop curiosity and imagination.
• have no directions and no instructions. Children can make their own decision about how to use the loose parts.
• can provide great sensory play experiences, developing new language and understanding of concepts and ideas.

 

To help us in our play (young children’s learning!), we are collecting loose parts for nursery and Primary 1!

 

Scavenger Hunt for Loose Parts!

Over the next few weeks, can you bring in some or as many of the following?

Please don’t spend any money!

We think there will be plenty of these things lying around our homes, etc.

 

Natural Objects	Things around the house	Old clothes, accessories, etc	For outside use	For tinker table
Shells	Wooden spoons	Shirts	Guttering	Food packing (with different languages welcome!)
Sticks/Twigs	Old keys and/or padlocks	Sheets	Milk crates	Scales
Feathers	Brushes: make-up, pastry, paint, shaving, nailbrushes toothbrushes	Scarves	Buckets	Nuts, bolts and washers
Pebbles/Larger stones	Cotton Reels	Old/broken watches	Baking trays	Old cassette or video tapes
	Old buttons	Hats	Metal/ wood kitchen utensils	Any old small electrical appliances/hardware to take apart (e.g. clocks, keyboards…)
	Old tape reels	Ribbons
	Wine corks	Chiffon/ Silk

 

More info available on loose parts here:

https://www.playscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/Play-Scotland-Loose-Parts-Leaflet.pdf