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Recipes for Messy Play, Revised Edition

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40 recipes for fun, open-ended sensory activities.
  • 02 April 2019
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Messy play is one of the great joys of early childhood. Not only is it tons of fun, it offers so many opportunities to learn. Through engaging in messy play, young children:
  • learn about their senses
  • build literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills
  • experiment with and explore the properties of the solutions
  • learn color mixing, patterns, design, texture, and rhythm
  • develop hand-eye coordination


  • Recipes for Messy Play, Revised Edition uses 40 fun, open-ended and creative recipes for children that can be used both in the early childhood education setting and at home. All of the recipes can be easily replicated with readily available ingredients. Full of innovative recipes and beautiful color photography of messy play in action, this book takes a modern and environmentally friendly approach to messy play.

    Easel backed, self-standing package, for easy reading. This revised edition has been beautifully redesigned.
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    Price: $17.95
    Pages: 48
    Publisher: Redleaf Press
    Imprint: Redleaf Press
    Publication Date: 02 April 2019
    Trim Size: 6.00 X 8.50 in
    ISBN: 9780473433178
    Format: Spiral-Bound
    BISACs: EDUCATION / Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten), FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Activities, EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Mathematics
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    Cathy Sheppard is a former secondary school teacher who discovered the joys of messy play through taking her four boys to Playcentre. Realizing how much learning children do through open-ended exploration and play, she completed the graduate diploma of teaching (ECE) at Victoria University and then Playcentre diploma of early childhood and adult education. Cathy now works as a professional development facilitator and early childhood teacher. Cathy lives in Wellington, New Zealand.