Transforming

Children engaged with the transforming schema almost always have a mesmerized look on their faces. They slow down to study the powerful changes they can produce when exploring paint, water, sand, clay and building with open ended materials.  - Adapted from: Children’s Lively Minds: Schema Theory made Visible, Deb Curtis and Nadia Jabonetta, Redleaf Press 2019

Using different materials and loose parts to become different objects, i.e. material can become a scarf, a roof, a doll's clothes, etc.