Creative Minds May 20, 2015 Throughout the year, the class has been showing a rising interest creating items and adding to them over a period of days. To support this ongoing interest, we have added fabric to the playground outside! The children are offered a variety of fabric ranging in sizes, prints, and textures along with scissors, tape, paper clips, and a stapler (with teacher support). At first some children were interested in using the fabric for blankets. Soon, more children joined in and decided they wanted to make clothing as well! The ideas ranged from dresses, to skirts and capes, to blankets. The creation of individualized clothing had a process that some children were familiar with from building with tools! First they had to decide what they wanted to make and choose the fabric. Then they had to decide how long or wide they wanted/needed it to be. In order to do that they had to measure! Some of the children were able to measure on their own, wherea...