Play Tool Kit

Resources in this kit include:

1. Advocating For Play - $10.00
   Articles in this Beginnings Workshop include: The fear of play, Too much and too many: How commercialism and screen technology combine to rob children of creative play, Looking into children's play communities and Imaginative Play During Childhood
2. Beginnings Workshop Book - Play - $24.00
   This collection of 23 Beginnings Workshop articles is an invaluable resource for staff training on the importance and fostering of play. With articles from Margie Carter, Jim Greenman, Karen Stephens and more!
3. Big Body Play - $20.00
   "Big body play" -the sometimes rowdy, always very physical running, rolling, climbing, tagging, jumping, grabbing, and wrestling that most children love and many adults try to shut down—can and should be an integral part of every early childhood setting. Drawing from evidence-based practice and the latest research, this book explains the multitude of benefits of big body play for young children's social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development. You will also learn how to organize the physical environment, set rules and policies, and supervise the play.
4. Promoting the Value of Play CD Book - $25.00
   Young children learn through play. All early childhood professionals know this. But today there is great pressure to push academic instruction down to the preschool years, thus diminishing children's time for play. This CD incorporates articles from Exchange and the HighScope Educational Research Foundation on understanding and advocating the value of play and on making play happen in early childhood programs.
5. The Play's the Thing - $25.95
   Responding to current debates on the place of play in schools, the authors have extensively revised their groundbreaking book. They explain how and why play is a critical part of children's development, as well as the central role adults have to promote it. This classic textbook and popular practitioner resource offers systematic descriptions and analyses of the different roles a teacher adopts to support play, including those of stage manager, mediator, player, scribe, assessor, communicator, and planner. This new edition has been expanded to include significant developments in the broadening landscape of early learning and care, such as assessment, diversity and culture, intentional teaching, inquiry, and the construction of knowledge.