Loose Parts 3: Inspiring Culturally Sustainable Environments

By Redleaf Press
Price $32.95
Age 0 - 8 yrs.

Loose Parts 3 builds upon and extends the exciting educational path established by the first two books in this invaluable series. This new installment incorporates a strong emphasis on using loose parts to help create culturally sensitive and culturally sustainable early childhood environments. Loose parts are objects that inherently inspire creativity. They may be natural or synthetic in origin and tend to possess physical characteristics conducive to their being used in a variety of ways. Examples include acorns, stones, hardware, aluminum foil, buttons, fabric scraps and a vast range of other items. Sight, smell, touch, and hearing are integral to the wide-ranging discoveries kids make as they move, manipulate, sort, categorize and repurpose loose parts in the context of highly imaginative, open-ended play. Loose Parts 3 contains 400+ stunning full-color photographs, images that prove as effective at sparking kids' curiosity as the text is in guiding adult readers in the ways of nurturing creativity and cultural identity.