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Whanganui Wearable Arts

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Te Awa Room has been pretty busy in Term 1 at BestStart Harrison Street. The teachers discovered that the main interest that the tamariki were into through observations was loose parts play. To help develop and extend this interest, the teachers decided to go brave and big and create a Wearable Arts Night – creating 35 costumes mainly out of loose parts!

 Now the first step was to introduce the idea of wearable arts to the children so they could start extending their own imagination and creativity. The next step was to ask each child what their idea was and what they wanted to be. We had lots of very creative and imaginative ideas!

 We then had to gather all different types of resources so the children could start making their costumes with the guidance and help from the teachers. We got amazing help from some of the whānau donating lots of different resources and even they were trying to ‘think outside the box’ as to how to create some of the ideas the children suggested.

 From there all the children and teachers had loads of fun creating their costumes, and it was great to see all the different expressions from the children when they started seeing that their own costumes were looking like what they had imagined.

 Whiz all the way to the Wearable Arts Night all the children were very excited to be in their own movie as it was being filmed also, and were very proud to show and display what they had created to their families and friends.

 This experience has provided the children opportunities to build their self-esteem as they engage in new challenges and recognise their own growth and accomplishments. Working with loose parts and creating their costumes out of loose parts, the children are also develop working theories for making sense of the natural, social, physical and material worlds while  learning different strategies for active exploration, thinking and reasoning through playing, imagining, inventing and experimenting.

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