Create Better Space, A new project

Create better space is a participative project to enhance outdoor play area for children under five in a community childcare setting. A participatory project created in collaboration with the community in Little Daisies Childcare. Devised, facilitated, project managed & documented by Roisin Markham.
Creating a multi-sensory experience with children and staff in Gorey Youth Needs Little Daisies Community Childcare. To provide access to the arts, creative use of materials and enhance the early years outdoor play area. Work with staff and children, aged 2½ to 5 years to create a beautiful and intriguing multi-sensory play area. To include a wall space and creating a garden among the tarmac and the walls.
Who might the project be of interest to? anyone working with or involved with children or in limited space where development and care of the child is central to the work or play.

Gorey Youth Needs Project site; #betterspace

The last month has seen a new creative project kick off in Gorey Youth Needs.
Amazingly I saw the opportunity and potential benefit to childcare facilities and the link to this kind of work at the Cultivating and Nurturing Happiness Seminar back in May.
I'm in hands on research phase with the children and staff with some dynamic results and igniting play in the small space by bringing different ways to think and engage with the children and staff in Little Daisies.
I'm in the process. The kick off went well and the slow lead in time has lead to building good relationships with the children and the staff.
I'm still doing lots of thinking, devising, exploring ideas for interactive multi sensory play during contact hours with the children and staff. There is a lot of work going on in the early stages as part of the project aims are to build resources into the 'Little Daisies'.
I've also been debating and considering how best to document the childcare multi-sensory project with under fives, staff and parents...
You will find the unfolding project will be blogged about here only briefly - all the online information will be funnelled into a dedicated blog http://createbetterspace.blogspot.com/ . The twitter hash tag is #betterspace. between now and the end of November I'll be tweeting on Wednesdays before contact hours, between observations and after the days work is done onsite.
If you would like more information on the project click here or contact me.