Resources

• Beautiful Stuff Treasure Boxes: Leveling the playing field by Marina Seevak
• Messing About in Science (1965) by David Hawkins
• Promoting Creativity for Life Using Open-Ended Materials by Walter F. Drew and Baji Rankin
• The Theory of Loose Parts: An important principle for design methodology. by Simon Nicholson

Beautiful Junk
Diane Warner and Jeanne Quill
Project Headstart, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1969

Beautiful Stuff: Learning with Found Materials
Cathy Weisman Topal and Leila Gandini
Davis Publications, 1999

Beautiful Stuff from Nature: More Learning with Found Materials
Edited by Cathy Topal and Leila Gandini
Davis Publications

Loose Parts Set (4 books)
Miriam Belogovsky and Lisa Daly
Redleaf Press

• Teaching Beyond The Square. New York, NY
• Think with Things. Virtual
• Hanoch Piven: author and illustrator

• New Bedford Children’s Creative Resource Center for Early Childhood Educators, New Bedford, MA
• Remida. Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Tinkertopia. Tacoma Washington
• Turnip Green Nashville, Tennessee
• Clever Octopus, Salt Lake City Utah
• Upcycle Parts, Cleveland Ohio
• For more here is a full directory of Creative Reuse Centers across the United States
• Make and Mend. Somerville, MA (second hand art supplies with online ordering)