Enrichment & the Reggio Emilia approach
Rich, consistent art and education sessions, full access to the free-play area and amenities, and a Holistic Process Approach to learning through authentic play and the arts.
The ongoing program
The studio’s ongoing program offers children rich consistent art and education sessions and events, as well as full access to our facilities free-play area and amenities. The main purpose of the studio is to provide curriculum centered on a Holistic Process Approach to learning. This process insures developing young children’s learning and creativity through authentic play and the arts. It is founded on our main beliefs that education should be relationship-based. This inspires individuals and group creative expression in children, under the guidance and nurture of educators, parents and caregivers, plus community. In this alternative and versatile play and learning space, children have daily opportunities to regularly connect and foster secondary relationships.
The Reggio Emilia method & philosophy
Studio Creative Play is inspired by the Reggio Emilia Method & Philosophy.
In the Reggio Emilia approach, the child is seen as a capable protagonist of their own learning — rich in potential, competent and full of curiosity, building knowledge through authentic play, relationships and the many languages of expression. Education is relationship-based: educators, parents and caregivers guide and nurture the process together, so individuals and groups can develop creative expression that is genuinely their own.
The environment is honored as a third teacher. In the studio’s alternative and versatile play and learning space, materials, light and open-ended invitations are arranged to invite exploration and close looking, giving children daily opportunities to connect — with materials, with ideas and with each other — and to revisit and deepen what they discover.
See how the ongoing program comes together
Explore the integrated activities behind every session, or apply to join the next three-month cycle. Call the studio for more information: 718-623-2775.