Are you a tinkerer? Tinkering, to most people, implies ‘messing about’ or playing with something: taking physical things apart, or making them, and not always with a set goal in… Read More
Learning By Tinkering
Category: Play
Playful attitudes, playful objects, playful games, and playful learning!
Big Letter Hunt
Two two-year-olds were being pushed to the park when one of them pointed up and said: – ”Look, it’s an M’. I looked to where she was pointing, and there… Read More
Thinking Creatively Through Construction
Why should children play through construction? Why is it important that they fail? Having kids build stuff seems like an unremarkable activity, but in reality what’s really involved is much… Read More
Making Time and Space for Free Play in Early Childhood
Take a moment to reflect on what play means to you. What do you remember about playing as a child? What are the spaces that are still vivid in your… Read More
Playing and Learning through Rhythm and Song in Ghana
All students from Class 1 to Junior Secondary School (JSS) 3 (9th grade) had lined up in arrow-straight rows by grade in my new school’s large courtyard: boys on the… Read More
Compositional Tinkering in the Music Room
In this article, I explore if a music educator can and should think of composition as tinkering. Traditional compositional pedagogy may miss valuable and enjoyable learning experiences the tinkering process… Read More
Crayons, Cardboard, and Virtual Reality
Teaching children to be creative is easily done through play. In fact, it is impossible not to be creative once you enter a state of play [1]. Children play intuitively… Read More
Can Learning Be Playful In 6th Grade Like Kindergarten?
Hi! My name is Claire, and I’m a 6th-grade student who lives in Taipei, Taiwan. I love to read, and today I’m here to talk about the topic of whether… Read More
Planning Daily Outdoor Play
Did you know that spending only 20 minutes outdoors everyday can have a huge positive impact on the physical and mental health and wellbeing of children? Daily fresh air can… Read More
Designing Undetermined Spaces for Play
An Empty Field (Harappa) and An Amusement Park | Contradictions in planning a space for play There is a famous essay known among contemporary architects in Japan written by an… Read More