Recipes for Messy Play

Messy play is one of the great joys of early childhood. This book uses forty fun, open-ended and creative recipes for children to build literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills.
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. Sheppard now works as a professional development facilitator ad early childhood teacher. Sheppard lives in New Zealand.