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Creating a beautiful mess ten essential play experiences for a joyous childhood

"Creating a Beautiful Mess provides adults with the ten most important play experiences children need and show how they represent a balance that support learning, provide physical activity, encourage creative expression, and promote social and family connections. These broad categories, include buil...

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Main Author: Gadzikowski, Ann
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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Parenting.
Families.
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Summary:"Creating a Beautiful Mess provides adults with the ten most important play experiences children need and show how they represent a balance that support learning, provide physical activity, encourage creative expression, and promote social and family connections. These broad categories, include building with blocks, pretending and make believe, running around like crazy, playing turn-taking games, finding and collecting things, and more"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:ix, 156 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-156).
ISBN:9781605543864 (paperback)
1605543861 (paperback)
Author Notes:Ann Gadzikowski has more than twenty-five years of experience working as an early childhood educator. Gadzikowski is a frequent presenter at conferences and currently serves as the early childhood coordinator for Northwestern University's Center for Talent Development. She is the author of many books for children and about children, including Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms and Story Dictation: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals.

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