Open-ended Play - free and unintentional Play
Open-ended play is a central concept in our daily activities and enormously important for healthy child development.
What does Open-ended Play mean?
We like to say: Our rainbow isn't a rainbow at all. Our rainbow is a marble run, a telephone receiver, a tunnel, a doll's seesaw, a multi-tiered cake, a fence, a Christmas tree, a barefoot path, and the mouth of a laughing face. And that's not all.
Children's Imagination
Children don't need any explanation of what a rainbow can be. It simply emerges intuitively through their own actions and their imaginations, because in children's imaginations, the building blocks can become anything, and the most fantastic worlds can emerge.
Imagination is the creative potential that can be available to a person throughout their life.
Self-confidence & Resilience
The foundations for a person’s self-confidence and resilience are laid in childhood.
Even as adults, we still benefit from a childhood in an environment where we were able to try things out and experience our potential in loving security and creative freedom.
More than just a Pastime
Play materials are not just there to keep children busy and give them something to do.
It is especially important to us that they receive play materials that are tailored to the (age-)specific abilities and developmental level of the individual child.
For a good future
That's why we encourage open-ended play with our play materials and a child-friendly environment with our children's furniture for a good future for us and our children!
“We want to give children space to create independently”
Marco Stuber