Beautiful Stuff!: Learning with Found Materials

Beautiful Stuff!: Learning with Found Materials

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Encourage your kids to express their creativity as they discover, collect, sort, arrange, experiment, and think with found and recyclable “stuff.” The real-life experiences of teachers and children will inspire ideas that you can try at home: choose objects and turn them into a display, transform materials into a face, build and glue wood scraps to make constructions. Appr...more
Hardcover, 120 pages
Published December 31st 1999 by Davis (first published March 27th 1999)
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Angela Boord
My only wish is that this book was longer! Excellent description (in a photo-essay format) of art-based projects with 3-6 year olds using found materials. Lots to think about as I look at how my own 3-6 year olds interact and build with the materials available for them here.
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