Imagine arriving at a park and finding piles of cardboard boxes, fabric, crates, tubes, tape, buckets, tires, pots and pans, and all kinds of other ordinary stuff waiting to become...whatever children decide.

There are no set activities, no instructions, and no right way to play. Children might build a fort, invent a game, create something enormous, take it apart, haul materials across the park, make a mess, or spend twenty minutes doing something that makes absolutely no sense to the adults watching. That's the point.

These materials are called loose parts: open-ended materials that children can move, combine, change, build with, and use however they choose.

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