Category Archives: play motifs
Principle 2: Fantasy and Imagination
Well I never expected it to take this long to get to the second principle of from David Sobel’s book, Childhood and Nature. (For more on where this started, visit here and here). But, life gets crazy and, interestingly enough, … Continue reading
adventure where it isn’t so wild
So we have been thinking a bit about kinesthetic adventure–how to invite the boys to engage their whole bodies in play at home, where things aren’t as wild. We live in a borrowed space, so our options for altering our … Continue reading
play motif 1: adventure
Engage the body with the natural world. I am not thinking very deep as I reflect on this motif. We do this well and enjoy it, and we keep getting better at it. Engaging the body with the natural world … Continue reading
an exploration of play motifs
A dear friend, believer in and lover of wilderness, and inspiring mama turned me on to the work of David Sobel. I am reading, well not really reading, more like hopping slowly around, his book Childhood and Nature: Design Principles … Continue reading
