Loose Parts Play

'Loose Parts' is the name we give to all the fun gubbins that children love to play with and learn from. If we want curious, exploring minds that are ready to take a risk, we have to give them things to explore and take risks with. Do you have any of these items knocking around? If so we would be very pleased indeed to give them a new home.

From the workshed 
• Tarpaulins (various sizes, types and colours), shower curtains 
• Wooden pallets – tough ones in good condition 
• Tough buckets 
• Cable drums or reels 
• Tubes, guttering and funnels, hosepipes 
• Wooden planks, ramps and lengths of plastics and other materials such as transparent corrugate 
• Nets/webbing                   
• Tyres – bicycle, motorbike, go-kart and car tyres 
• Wheelbarrow 
Natural materials 
• Logs of different heights and widths 
• A variety of lengths of wood 
• Willow or hazel rods at least 1.5m long 
• Sticks – various lengths 
• Stones, pebbles, cobbles 
• Wooden pennies (slices of wood about three inches thick) 
From the home 
• Old suitcases or wheeled shopping bags 
• Baskets for collecting and transporting 
• Computer keyboards 
• Old clothes for dressing up, for example, jacket suits, waistcoats and handbags 
Storage 
• Milk and bread crates 
• Large shallow trays 
Random bits 
• Steering wheels  
• Portable seats and things to sit on: aluminium bubble-wrap, camping mats and gardening mats 
• Trolley to aid tidying up