The toddler teachers and I can often be found with our heads together, generating ideas on how to best involve toddlers in studio projects that are emerging from my work with the primary and extended primary children. After some discussion we decided to explore story telling since so many children have been making story people and using drawings as a point of reference for telling tales.
Knowing that toddlers are not yet motivated by representational drawing, we asked families to send in photographs as story telling prompts.
The day was amazing!! Both Rose and I were humbled by the eagerness with which the children shared their pictures and the memories contained in them. As is often the case when researching alongside young children, we discovered how much they can teach us.
We will continue working together to discover questions and topics of interests to further our understanding of toddler-tale-telling, child development and the beautiful children in our care.
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