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We Play and Playopedia

June 14, 2011
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I know that some readers will be visiting today looking for the We Play link up. I have decided to have a rest from the meme and would instead welcome you to submit your link to Playopedia which is very simple to do. We are always on the lookout for great play ideas to include [...]

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Introducing Playopedia

June 7, 2011

After her computer crashed and wiped a heap of play ideas she had bookmarked from We Play, a wonderful blogging friend, Marita of Stuff With Thing, suggested that it would be great to have a searchable database of the super play ideas linked to We Play over the past 13 months. Well, I am always [...]

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We Play: The Home of Playfulness

May 31, 2011
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This week Immy has been rediscovering her watercolour paints which had not made an appearance for a little while now. There have been many, many paintings of figures, exploring with patches of colour, experimenting with how the water impacts the colour saturation, and even applying the paint with her fingertip (and *ahem* yes, we quite [...]

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We Play: Let’s Play Together

May 24, 2011
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I found it interesting that many parents struggle with letting go of the need for a child’s creative project to look like their own preconceived, adult ideal. To be honest with you, I think a child’s visual interpretation of their world is so much more interesting than an adult’s! This week I found Immy busy [...]

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We Play: Playing All Over the World

May 17, 2011
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We read often in our house. At any time of the day, in any room of our house (though one of our favourite places to read is our book space which I featured on Friday).  Most days we read at breakfast time, a ritual which began as an attempt to keep a busy toddler at [...]

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We Play: Because Childhood Is Not A Race

May 10, 2011
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Sometimes the learning potential of a child’s play is not obvious to see. As adults we look and see boxes and pipe cleaners and scraps of tape… …where a child delights in a house which needs more decoration, family members adorned with all manner of personal decoration, and vehicles to speed around a city of [...]

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We Play: Play is Learning in Action

May 3, 2011
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You might have seen our treehouse post yesterday? Needless to say, the jungle animals have been enjoying many impromptu gatherings in and around their tree house over the past few days! What I love about open ended toys, is their capacity to encourage a diverse range of play experiences, limited only by the child’s own [...]

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We Play: Join our Playful Community

April 26, 2011
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Adding a simple roadscape hand drawn on a large piece of cardboard has brought together a number of our imaginative play elements – small houses and people figurines, a wooden park and market garden, road signs and vehicles. I know it is simple and not flash (and I could easily add more details with some [...]

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