Loose Parts Play Toolkit

Welcome to the second edition of the Loose Parts Play Toolkit.

In this edition, we have tried to reflect the changing context. Loose parts for play are a more familiar sight, but their introduction is still providing a learning and development experience for adults and organisations, as much as for children.

With this in mind, this edition offers:

a greater focus on skills that help adults to facilitate loose parts play sensitively and respectfully
more starting points to link loose parts play with education, curriculum, wellbeing, social and care contexts
a wider range of ‘snapshots’ and case studies illustrating real-life application of loose parts play theory in the field
more pages to print, photocopy and share

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26.04.2017

“Physical activity levels are far too low” – children’s health & well-being in Canada & Scotland

Dr. Mark Tremblay of HALO Research and Prof. John Reilly of the University of Strathclyde discuss childhood inactivity levels in Canada and Scotland from the Active Healthy Kids Report Card 2016 – one of the reasons we strive for physically active outdoor play for all of Scotland’s children.

Nature scavenger hunt

Part of Thrive Outdoors downloadable series of resources developed to support outdoor play. Nature scavenger hunt What sort of treasure can you find outdoors?

Video – Charity Resilience: Governance

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