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Getting Ready for Children
Ideas that guide our work
De-clutter to provide focus Understand the impact of color Consider the use of light
Use lines and shapes with intention Give attention to details Combine design principles with early childhood goals
Where we started
Before After
Before After
How do each of these environments make you feel?
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images and print distracts and interferes with their ability to focus.
A cluttered space transformed with attention to color and light.
De-cluttering space opens pathways to new possibilities.
Designing a space with a new purpose
Understanding color
Color impacts behavior
How do the changes we made in this corner make you feel?
Why?
Before
After
How might this color impact behavior?
Use shapes, patterns and lines with intention
Our goal is to guide the eye and develop visual literacy.
Shapes and repeating patterns
Use color to follow and enhance shapes and pattern
Notice the combining of shapes and repeating patterns.
Can you identify the repeating lines and shapes in this space?
Can you identify the repeating lines and shapes in this space?
Can you identify the repeating lines and shapes in this space?
Developing visual literacy (distinguishing shapes, lines, patterns) is a stepping stone for learning about letters and numerals.
Children learn about letters not only from print
but from carefully placed lines and shapes in their environment.
Consider the use of light
Lights can soften be cozy invite mystery
Light can create a sense of wonder
Give attention to details
The relationship between color and repeating shapes can be seen in even the smallest of details.
Help children see details in the natural world.
Children are miracles.Believing every child is a miracle
can transform the way we design for children’s care.We make it our job to create, with reverence and gratitude,
a space that is worthy of a miracle. Anita Rui Olds.