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Infants and Toddlers
Materials Play in the Morning
January 21, 2012
We just started up a new program at The Carle called Materials Play in the Morning.
The program is geared towards toddlers and their caregivers, with different material experiences each week. Last week I created Tissue Paper Mountain, with things hiding inside! I invited the children to tear down the mountain to start off the morning.
Destruction of the mountain was tentative at first, with just a couple of children and their parents present. After more friends joined, and a little tearing and tossing on the adults’ part, everyone just went wild. The tricky thing was not slipping on the paper when things got really wild.
By the time it started getting too slippery it was easy to then invite the transition to gluing the tissue (in wads, hunks, mounds, strips and shapes) onto large pieces of watercolor paper with liquid laundry starch.
Update: 6/27/2018: We no longer use store-bought liquid laundry starch in the Art Studio and instead use AP certified non-toxic Elmer’s Art Paste.
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