by kindlinglily | Apr 27, 2012 | Case Studies
So the cliché goes, there are lots of things Germany does well; public transport, sausages, compound nouns… actually all these things are true, but I’ve been discovering that in Berlin and Hamburg there are some other things that are done well;...
by kindlinglily | Feb 17, 2012 | Creative Moments
Last week a series of posters were doing the rounds, originated from Explorations Early Learning: http://www.explorationsearlylearning.com/shop5/posters.html This one really caught the imagination of a number of people on Facebook. It’s great isn’t it! It...
by kindlinglily | Feb 12, 2012 | Theory and Ideas
Sometimes I feel like describing ‘play’ is like drawing the wind. You can recognise it, you know what it looks and feels like, but it is somehow nebulous and hard to pin down. I have been working in the field of play and playwork for nearly fifteen years and yet I...
by kindlinglily | Aug 1, 2011 | Creative Moments
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato I recently spent a wonderful 24hrs with my friend and her daughter, my goddaughter R. Now aged six, this is a child I have known since before she was born, we...
by kindlinglily | Apr 2, 2011 | Forest School
March has been an exciting month. So exciting in fact I have barely had time to write it all up! I have been keeping notes and I have started to wade through all my photos, so the next week or so will hopefully get me up to date on current projects which involve a bit...
