It looks like a mess, right? I have been collecting (with the much help from former students) these caps for a couple of years now. I still have a dream of inspiring the students to create a huge mural made from bottle caps ... In time, it will come. I wish I'd started the "Loose Parts" project sooner!
This is our second edition of "Loose Parts" and it explores how unrelated bottle caps and farm animal counters can inspire and be a creative and sensory provocation to 4 and 5 year olds. We spread these materials out on the area carpet and welcomed the children into the classroom. They donned indoor shoes, and made a bee-line for the carpet.
"There were so many of the same colour."
"They could stick together." -- stack and fit into each other.
"Some were the same and some were different. Some were
different colours."
Patterning at play
Animals in the barn.
"Animals are in the corners of the X."
"Look at my claws!"
"This is our volcano!"
"Everything is in its own row."
This child created a rattle. MUSIC! This was an unexpected
outcome! I love the inquiry that is taking place!
"This is my person."
Creativity and innovation is abound!
Thank you for visiting our atelier.
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