Explorer Set

Guiding Thought

{cytat We may have more experience than children, and we know a lot they don’t—but when it comes to what they think and feel, they often know more than we do.|Janusz Korczak

pediatrician, educator, early children's rights advocate}

Student Project

Explorer Set (Zestaw odkrywcy)

Target age group: children aged 3–6

Every child develops in their own unique way. While there are general benchmarks to help track a child’s progress, it is important to remember that development is a journey. And it happens fast—a three-year-old is very different from a six-year-old.

Children in this age group are like sponges—they absorb an incredible amount of knowledge and information. They learn through experience and play. They are curious, imaginative, and free of bias. Their minds can create entire worlds, and when given the freedom, they will chase any idea as far as it will take them.

The Explorer Set supports:

1. Social-emotional development
• sparks creativity
• encourages role-play and independent play
• helps children learn self-regulation
2. Sensory integration
• provides a variety of sensory experiences
3. Motor skills
• supports the development of both gross and fine motor skills
• helps build body awareness
4. Cognitive abilities
• improves spatial awareness
• supports conflict resolution skills

Play ideas

An extra wall can turn the rocker into a hideout, a secret room, a burrow, a puppet theater, a secret passage, or a map of a secret land.

An added platform transforms it into a boat, canoe, sleigh, horse, vehicle, tent, or fort.

A curtain opens up possibilities for a cave, jungle, underwater world, or scrub.

Project components

Hammock

• filled with three materials: cherry pits, fabric knots, and fabric scraps
• attached to the rocker with a rope
• made from a cotton-linen blend
• includes three openings in different sizes

"Noodles"

• filled with fabric scraps
• made from a cotton-linen blend
• two openings in the wider noodle, one opening in the narrower one

Project Authors