imagining

Imagining with children is a fabulous thing to do. There are different ways in which kids can exercise their imagination: little worlds play; recreating experiences or dressing up and becoming someone else.I noticed that it's enough to put on a hat to create a caracter. With the right attributes a child will enter a new world, where fantasy and imagining can flow liberally.
I know from experience, but also Reggio Emilia and Maria Montessori say that taking children into so called prepared spaces recharges and lift up their spiritual, cognitive and social development. (Have a look at all my albums on the end of this post and it's effect on the children)

Het net doen alsof is een goede oefening voor kinderen om hun fantasie te stimuleren. Om weg te dromen en zich te wanen in een andere wereld (en hier ook naar te handelen).
Reggio Emilia, maar ook Maria Montessori gaan ervan uit dat voorbereide ruimtes, dat zijn ruimtes die zijn aangepast aan speciale wensen van het kind, uitermate belangrijk zijn omdat de omgeving van het kind een positieve uitwerking heeft op hun intellectuele, sociale en spirituele ontwikkeling. (Kijk vooral ook naar alle creaties die ik al maakte aan het einde van deze post en het effect op de kinderen)

Hi! I am happy to welcome you at the Best Ideas for Kids- BLOGHOP 2011.

Here you can share your ONE most favorite post from 2011. We mom bloggers are looking forward to see how you've played last year with your child(ren). 

While you are scrolling down have a look at my favorite post of 2011.

In this post my kid and me brought our playing outside - adventure alive in a creative way,  we ARE as one in play.

That will be my message for 2012: 'PLAY, LOVE, CONNECT' !

We travel a lot between Italy and the Netherlands. This means hours of waiting, sitting still and practising our patience. Both of us became stars in inventing games to let time pass by smoothly.

Our last journey was one of the best, because we pretended to be clowns and to have BIG fun with our public..