21 February 2011

Our new room, part 3

Our new room means:
  • plenty of open space 
  • permission to re-arrange furniture (if we put it back afterwards)
  • four low benches, which I use as shelving and to define our circle
  • windows which let in a lot of light (but aren't distracting)
but:
  • it's large and echo-y (hard to walk slowly and speak softly)
  • all the furniture apart from the benches is adult-sized

Here's how I'm setting it up for our sessions (I've used gray for furnishings in the room that we don't use). (You can click on the picture to enlarge it.)

.
For info on the various shelves, including the "getting ready" bench, scroll down to the "part 2" post. Our seating mats are Ikea bathmats, a great bargain at €1/mat. The Bible stand is just a music stand which was already in the room. The art materials are currently stored in a little wire trolley - not ideal, but lightweight, easily transportable, and something I already had in my attic.

Edited to add photo (from last week, before the addition of World Communion material):




Publish Post

2 comments:

  1. I'm so jealous!! I can't imagine what it would be like to have a Godly Play room besides my kitchen or a bare classroom. Someday . . . !

    ReplyDelete
  2. Eventually I'll get around to posting about doing Advent in my living room :)

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for conversing with me about Godly Play®! I do moderate some comments for the sake of the children I write about. Please be polite: to quote the Velveteen Rabbi, Whatever you're going to say in response to my posts, consider whether it's the sort of thing you would say to your host or their children if you'd been invited to someone's home for tea. If it isn't, then please don't say it here.

If you're new to commenting on blogs, I recommend that you "Comment as" Name/URL. You can use your real first name or a nickname. URL is the address of a website that you want to be linked with your name - feel free to leave it blank. Before your comment is accepted, you have to pass a spam filter. After clicking on 'post comment' or 'preview', just type in the sequence of letters you will then see (or click on the wheelchair for a recording of characters to type). Thanks for reading and commenting!