Recipes for Messy Play, Revised Edition: 40 Fun Sensory Experiences for Young Learners

by Cathy Sheppard

Overview

Messy play is one of the great joys of early childhood. Not only is it tons of fun, it offers so many opportunities to learn. Through engaging in messy play, young children:

learn about their senses

build literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills

experiment with and explore the properties of the solutions

learn color mixing, patterns, design, texture, and rhythm

develop hand-eye coordination

Recipes for Messy Play, Revised Edition uses 40 fun, open-ended and creative recipes for children that can be used both in the early childhood education setting and at home. All of the recipes can be easily replicated with readily available ingredients. Full of innovative recipes and beautiful color photography of messy play in action, this book takes a modern and environmentally friendly approach to messy play.

Easel backed, self-standing package, for easy reading. This revised edition has been beautifully redesigned.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780473433178
Publisher:	Redleaf Press
Publication date:	04/02/2019
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Cathy Sheppard is a former secondary school teacher who discovered the joys of messy play through taking her four boys to Playcentre. Realizing how much learning children do through open-ended exploration and play, she completed the graduate diploma of teaching (ECE) at Victoria Universityand then Playcentre diploma of early childhood and adult education. Cathy now works as a professional development facilitator and early childhood teacher. Cathy lives in Wellington, New Zealand.