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| not able to wait - I had to try on a hat or two and a cape etc, before the children... |
Lots of thoughts went around our heads as to how to how to present the new Fafu clothes - should we just put them in the box of dress up clothes - or should we allow the children to discover them with the opportunity for us to listen to their ideas about what they believed they were...
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| the children were eager to test everything out - Feet? Hands? Dinosaurs, ducks, claws..... |
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| opportunities to help each other |
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| a chance to explore together, to wonder together - why so many holes - are they volcanoes, a cape for an octopus, or a monster or a princess - to marvel together that it's one colour on one side and another on the other |
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| a chance to practice fine motor skills as well as finger strength... |
I love the fact that the clothes are not gender coded in any way - they are totally open to interpretation for boys and girls - and for all sorts of play.
I enjoyed watching the children try on the clothes and then start to play - even when they returned to playing with their usual things at the preschool, they started to play with them in a different way - the clothes sort of transformed them allowing the children to approach their play in a new way...
I am looking forward to taking the clothes out to the forest with us - will it transform how they see the forest...?
I am so glad you & your class 'get them'. I am sad to hear from other teachers that they don't understand what they are for!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletewhat? feels so incomprehensible not to "get them" - the children totally do - and maybe only adults without their inner child forget how to use these clothes! Pure genius!
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