Introducing Playful Learning

August 4, 2008

I'm very pleased to share a web resource I recently stumbled on via a comment left on my blog.

Playful Learning is a website with blog posts that feature "simple, playful learning experiences that parents can easily share with their children". I personally like the simple part.

Discovering this website/blog comes at a perfect time. I find that the first months of late spring and early summer are intoxicating for my children and they want to be outside all day. It's bliss for me, I get so much indoor stuff done without distraction!

But mid-summer has hit and although the days are gorgeous the kids are less inclined to spend all day outdoors. That's ok, it's hotter and they need a break from the sun a bit (we don't like using sunscreen).

When they're indoors they craft and create. Now that we've found Playful Learning we'll have more inspiration for projects. But the really cool part is Playful Learning posts include aloud books and on-line resources that go along with the project.

Mariah, the educator and mother-mind behind Playful Learning, wants to "create a community of families who document and share their playful learning experiences so that we can learn from and collaborate with people around the world." So if you blog about cool activities with your kids pass them on to her. I shared the <a href ="http://renee.tougas.net/easy_shadow_craft_and_play">shadow puppets activity</a> the kids created earlier this summer and she posted it on her site but added a materials and resources list complete with books and on-line videos. Wow, this woman's good!

If you have young children check it out.

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