Many early childhood settings have consciously moved away from commercialised dressing up clothes and have replaced items with authentic clothing and open-ended resources. This 3 page blog aims to help educators reflect and think about the value and limitations of specific dress-up resources on offer in their early childhood setting and provides a suggestion list for real-life dress up resources.
authentic clothes vs commercialised costumes ..Mosaic 2025

 

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Additional information: MOSAIC Educator www.mosaicearlyed.com  is an inclusive, secure, child documentation system designed for use in early childhood services. The design of MOSAIC puts child safeguarding and child voice at its core. This includes password protected classrooms, parent authentication and secure storage compliance. In addition, the unique design of MOSAIC using an individual storybook for each child, means photos, videos and information is only accessible to the registered parent/family members outside the early childhood service. Parents can download all information to a personal device before information is deleted from a secure server at regular intervals.

About the Author:

Avril McMonagle is Founder and CEO of MOSAIC Digital Solutions for Early Education which provides a range of child centred digital products, training and quality compliance supports for early childhood services and stakeholders. She s a published author (A Suitcase Full of Stories – Pedagogical Documentation for Early Education 2024, Amazon.  For more see www.mosaicearlyed.com; email [email protected] and follow us on social media @mosaicearlyed

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