Louise Kool News — dolls

SWIR: Strategies for Keeping Instructional Tools and Toys Safe 0

With new stringent sanitation standards in schools and child care centres, is the only safe option, plastic toys?  Do we have to walk back the naturalization (wood pebbles, feathers, fabrics etc) of our classrooms? 

In this third in a series of blog posts on how child care centres and classrooms are re-opening while keeping both children and staff safe in a COVID world, we've organized some hygiene strategies for instructional materials and toys:  Sanitizing/Washing, Individualizing and Rotating (SWIR).

Empathy Dolls: Subtle Cues Provoke Deep Connections 0

Empathy dolls,through subtle naturalistic design cues create deep emotional connections for children or adults in play, education and therapy.  New dolls from Dusyma are specifically designed to engage old and young a like and prompt communication.