Stick Play!

Loose Parts Nature Play

Chelsea Forest School Stick Play

http://www.chelseaforestschool.ca/index.php/en/risk-assessments/

Patrick Dougherty

http://www.stickwork.net/featured

Backwoods Mama: What to Say Instead of Be Careful

https://www.backwoodsmama.com/2018/02/stop-telling-kids-be-careful-and-what-to-say-instead.html

Boston Outdoor Preschool Network

https://www.bopn.org/post/the-importance-of-stick-play

Weapon Play

https://seecstories.com/2018/11/08/weapon-play-in-early-childhood-how-to-be-developmentally-appropriate-and-responsive-to-current-events/#:~:text=Weapon%20play%20is%20just%20one,were%20pretending%20to%20shoot%20things.

https://portland.momcollective.com/ages-stages/weapon-play/

Tinkergarten Stick Activities

• Follow the Arrows: https://tinkergarten.com/activities/follow-arrows
• Bundle of Sticks: https://tinkergarten.com/activities/pick-up-sticks
• Pickup Sticks: https://tinkergarten.com/activities/pick-up-sticks
• Build a Dam: https://tinkergarten.com/activities/build-a-dam
• Build a Wall: https://tinkergarten.com/activities/great-wall
• Go Fish: https://tinkergarten.com/activities/go-fish

Books:

Stickwork by Patrick Dougherty

https://amzn.to/3xjSEhY

Not a Stick

https://amzn.to/3DP2ji5

The Clever Stick

https://amzn.to/3KoibdR

A Stick Until

https://amzn.to/3Koog9Y

Twig

https://amzn.to/376BJEZ

Max Found Two Sticks

https://amzn.to/3r8WG92

Stick Man

https://amzn.to/3NSS5lf

The Stick by Clay Rice

https://amzn.to/35PYFYv

Stick! By Irene Dickson

https://amzn.to/3JlWB8c

Mattland (going to break stick)

https://amzn.to/3Jk0Ml9

A Stick is a Wonderful Thing—poem

https://amzn.to/3jfhwiH

The Stick Book: Loads of things you can make or do with a stick Schofield and danks

https://amzn.to/3JkIct2

6 Sticks By Molly Coxe

https://amzn.to/3Jl3k2g

Loose Parts Play Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/LoosePartsPlay/

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