Book guide: Play outside
Sand, cones and sticks
In the book Leka ute, we meet many different children playing. In play, children can practice feelings, relationships, characteristics and roles. The game also allows us to develop the body, such as balance, muscles and courage.
Questions about play and sleeping
In the book Leka ute, one of the children rides the slide.
Do you like to slide?
What do you think it feels like to be high on something?
How does it feel to go fast down something? Where in the body does it feel?
One of the children falls asleep in the carriage.
Where do you like to sleep best?
What do you usually do when you go to sleep?
About play
In play, children practice different skills, such as relationships or imagination, proximity or distance, movement or fine motor skills and so on. A good strategy is to let children try many different kinds of games, so that the games give the child more opportunities to practice and develop different skills and interests.
Many toys are still stereotypical, but when children play outside with sand, cones and sticks, they can be freer in their play instead of being limited by expectations about what and how girls and boys should play.
About not sexting children
We live in a society that strives for equality. Even so, expectations of what games children should play and enjoy are limited by stereotypical gender roles. In many of our books, we do not gender the children, that is, we do not write whether they are girls or boys, but let the child be just a child. This means that more children identify themselves as the main character and think - that's me!
