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Posts Tagged ‘logs’

lifelike lizards

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

You can buy some wonderful props quite inexpensively if you look around.

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These gorgeous lizards are available from toy shops and look very lifelike.

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We like to use them both indoors and outdoors …

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as they are extremely solid.

We love to create natural play spaces for them …

with lots of earthy and sensory materials.

They really are irresistible …

and a good size …

with delightful features …

encouraging lots of imaginative play.

Resulting in wonderful play based learning!

Tags: leaves, lizards, logs, plants, rocks, sand, Toy shops, twigs
Posted in Dramatic & Imaginative, Sensory, Social & Emotional | 3 Comments »

irresistible insects

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Imaginative play doesn’t need to be fancy, expensive or difficult to set up!

The discount shops are great for buying basic props very cheaply.

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Here we have some quite large plastic insects which the children really enjoy playing with.

They are a great size …

and they look so life like!

By making available natural materials like a variety of logs, pebbles, rocks and plants, imaginative play simply takes off!

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With the addition of earthy coloured fabrics, the environment looks very effective and to the children it is irresistible fun!

Tags: imaginary play, insects, irresistible ideas, logs, natural materials
Posted in Dramatic & Imaginative, Make It Irresistible, Science & Technology | 8 Comments »

perfect pet play!

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

We were trawling the discount shops again …

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when we found these really cute mice …

and cats …

and dogs.

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We popped them out with some wooden building blocks …

and assorted fabrics,

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along with logs and rocks.

The children had such fun with them mixing and matching our old and newer style wooden blocks into the play.

Once again the top of the block trolley was used, which as we’ve said many times before is a perfect platform for play.

It also means the children can access extra blocks and supplies.

You really don’t need fancy equipment to make play fun, just children and their wonderful imaginations!

Tags: bench top, blocks, cats, dogs, logs, mice, rocks, scarves
Posted in Dramatic & Imaginative, Physical Development, Social & Emotional | 1 Comment »

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sherry and donna

Welcome to our unique Australian based website irresistible ideas for play based learning designed to inspire and assist parents, tertiary students of early childhood teaching and teachers who follow a developmental curriculum.

For several years now, while teaching pre-school together, we have been following a mantra, make it irresistible in order to encourage our students to become active learners and investigators.

We believe play based learning is active learning which is developmentally correct for every child. We understand how difficult it can be to find exciting and appropriate ideas for children in the early learning years so we would like to share with you, through photographs and useful information some irresistible ideas that our students are enjoying.

We hope you gain pleasure from what we have to offer and if you have an irresistible idea you would like to share, or need help with one please Contact Us. We would love to hear from you.

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Irresistible Ideas For Play Based Learning

Irresistible Ideas for play based learning

play based learning is active learning