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Starting with Loose Parts
Publications and Tools

Starting with Loose Parts

Environments for Playful Inquiry: Where do I start?
Practice
Publications and Tools

Environments for Playful Inquiry: Where do I start?

Asking Unanswerable Questions
Playful Inquiry

Asking Unanswerable Questions

FROM THE OPAL ARCHIVE: This tool comes from the Inspiring Inventiveness collection of Principles, Practices, and Tools developed by Opal…Read More.
Family Explore: Texture
Playful Inquiry
Tools and Publications

Family Explore: Texture

FAMILY EXPLORE ​Family Explore was created as a suite of resources to support adults in guiding children/ students through an…Read More.
First Experience with Tempera Paint
Environments and Materials

First Experience with Tempera Paint

First Experience with Tempera Paint (excerpt from The Field Guide, Chp. 3) written by Melinda Hayward, former Prescott Teaching Preschool…Read More.
Suggested Classroom Materials List
Environments and Materials
Tools and Publications

Suggested Classroom Materials List

We often go into schools and conduct workshops where people ask us where we get all of the interesting art…Read More.
Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children
Environments and Materials

Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children

  For young children the sensory world is a source of satisfaction, and imagination is the source of exploratory delight.…Read More.