Much as glue and tape are wonderful – and finding ways to fix things together is fantastic – sometimes it’s crucial to put the glue and tape away and experiment…
I adore the ‘loose parts’ theory and find that greater investigations explorations take place when you are free to keep changing your mind and to re-arrange things.
Whether it’s 2d or 3d thinking and exploring, if you can keep testing new ideas and moving things around, then you tend to discover more. You are free to have ‘happy accidents’ where things present themselves to you unexpectedly.
I think this is especially true with very young children, when their thinking and exploring is crossing so many different areas. If you are a child who loves to discover what happens when you stack things – making towers is going to hold more fascination than gluing things flat onto a surface…
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