"Look where you're going with that stick!"
"Watch where you point that stick!"
"Don't trip on that stick!"
How many of us have uttered these phrases when outside playing with our children? As a parent, our fear of what may happen when our children play with sticks (they will get poked in the eye, hit someone, trip and fall, scrape their arm) often outweighs the possibilities that sticks bring to rich imaginative play.
Today we read a book that illustrated what sticks could become with just a little bit of imagination. Have a look:
We were so inspired by "Not a Stick" when we read it, that we decided to go look for sticks to add to our classroom and more importantly, our outdoor learning area.
We walked to the forest area behind St. Ignatius Catholic School to explore the woods and see what we could find.
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