I was playing online with Google looking for some inspiration for discovery bottles (there wasn’t a huge amount that really caught my eye ( I think I’ll have to create a post on that myself!) ... and I accidentally found this blog post on her "Shiny Happy Paper People":
I was really inspired by this blogger and she’s very kindly
given me permission to do this post about her dolls! The ones that I have made are
quite large! They are going to be good for the toddlers and preschoolers
together ... If I make them again, I’ll make them smaller, and I’ll also
explore other patterns! These are things that an educator could easily make for
their own teaching bag!
Since I had brought some scrap booking paper to work for
another project – this is something we were able to do immediately! It’s been
evolving over a few weeks – and the ones displayed in this blog are the ones
that I’ve made ... the kid’s ones were awesome and I wish I could show them!
Some children took them home, some let me keep them for our own collection.
We are using them as
resources that we’ve made ourselves – which ties in with being creative,
inventive, following the children’s interest (in collage and making things!),
supports the children as capable and resourceful, used budget friendly
materials (recycled donated cardboard + donated scrapbook paper).
The children can use them in block play or on the bulletin
board where they will stick with some hook-Velcro ... It’s just a resource that
we’ve done ourselves – that represent us or people we know or care about – and
is something that will give us an opportunity to play! The children could even
use them to create stories of their own which we could write down and document
with photographs! The children might want to make some other items to help
provision the play? Who knows where the children will want to take it ... it
might just stay where it is!
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