Engage Young Children in Creative Play with Loose Parts

Nadia: Good one

United Kingdom on May 06, 2023

Ang1234: This book is worth a buy. While we all use loose parts I never fully understood why. This booked helped me out the pieces together. Highly recommend

United Kingdom on Jun 08, 2022

Robby & Alexa: I had the honor of taking several classes by Lisa Daly and finally got my hands on her book. She is a wonder for the field and I can feel her throughout. The book is full of child development knowledge bits and how engaging loose parts can be. The pictures are absolutely inspiring and beautiful. I have also found it easy to read as my daughter plays at my feet, but she often loves reading it as much as I do because of all the pictures! Highly recommend for anyone interested in deepening children's play.

United States on Sep 15, 2021

NC: This book has lots of vibrant pictures that are inspiring for me as a kindergarten teacher. Worthwhile purchase.

Canada on Jan 23, 2021

Matteo Rainieri: Ho comprato questo libro soltanto ieri e l’ho letto tutto d’un fiato. Veramente ben scritto, interessante, scorrevole, piacevole e pienamente comprensibile anche per un non madrelingua inglese. Le teorie espresse sono ben documentate con esempi tratti dalla pratica e soprattutto con tantissime fotografie che arricchiscono questo lavoro e gli danno pieno compimento. Consigliatissimo a tutti gli insegnanti, soprattutto di scuola dell’infanzia, ma anche a genitori che vogliano guidare i loro figli nell’avventura di apprendere!

Italy on Aug 14, 2020

Mrs. CCS: We purchased 22 of these books for our contracted child care homes. They were a big hit with the family child care providers. The information is great and easy to understand and apply, and the pictures are fantastic. I would highly recommend this to any preschool program.

United States on Nov 24, 2019

kind words calligraphy: Lovely book with ideas how to set up loose parts but not really geared up for under 2 year olds. Yes it has some ideas but lots of the pictures shown would be too much of a choking risk. Still I would buy again and I will be buying the other ones in this series

United Kingdom on Sep 10, 2019

Carolyn Wilhelm: Loose Parts is similar to a Reggio based learning approach and is not only a collection of useful materials, but the setting up of provocations or setting the stage for the classroom to be a third teacher. The environment and loose parts help teach as they draw the children in who will want to know what is going on. The children are presented with some loose parts, a story or staging, and work to construct solutions to the presented problem. They engage in higher level thinking, creativity, and the discovery of multiple possible solutions. The actual materials or loose parts may be reconfigured for use in new provocations, sorted, save, and reorganized for other problem solving activities. It is STEAM (STEAM means Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning!
STEM is like STEAM without art, but art elements are included in this book.

United States on May 02, 2016

Ladybug66: This book as a lot of pictures that can be inspirational. However, it doesn't have much by way of planning or implementing loose parts play into an existing curriculum or classroom. I have found that just setting loose parts out, no matter how attractively, doesn't necessarily attract young learners. Still looking for something with more information.

United States on Feb 17, 2016

inkneedeep: Really am enjoying this book. I work with 0-5 year olds and we are on a tight budget. I have noticed the children do get bored with the colorful plastic toys. I use these ideas for the 3-5 age group, where they are not putting things in their mouths.

United States on Jan 22, 2016