Autumn Themed Loose Parts Play

20 natural resources to collect

Okay so you might look at the title of this post and think, ‘What on earth is loose parts play?’

Are loose parts toys?

What does the term even mean?

There is, in fact, a whole pedagogy behind loose parts. The term was first coined by architect Simon Nicholson in 1971 when he wrote an article called , ‘The Theory of Loose Parts: How not to cheat children’ i…