by Christopher Roy | Jun 2, 2015 | Inspiration
We are so very excited to finally announce the top 5 entries in our Share Your Invitation to Play contest. These top 5 will go to our contest panel for them to select the final winning entry. Before we announce the top group, we want to thank all of you who gave your...
by Christopher Roy | May 26, 2015 | Inspiration
Our Create and Share Your Invitation to Play ~ Win a Free $5000 Classroom Giveaway Contest is just a few days away from closing. You still have time to vote for your favourite Invitation to Play! – There are two ways to have your vote counted. The five final...
by Christopher Roy | May 25, 2015 | Inspiration
As a thank you to the 25,000+ fans in our natural play community on Facebook, we’re giving away one of our portable play kitchens to a lucky winner as a thank you for being with us in this work. To enter our giveaway, all you have to do is sign up to receive our...
by Christopher Roy | May 13, 2015 | Inspiration
Voting is open in our Create and Share Your Invitation to Play ~ Win a Free $5000 Classroom Giveaway Contest. You can still enter your own Invitation to Play for a chance to win. Vote for your favourite play ideas submitted by our community. To help make voting...
by Christopher Roy | May 6, 2015 | Inspiration
One of the most important principles behind our work is understanding how children learn through play. It informs all aspects of our better learning environment, furniture and toy design. Here’s a wonderful news story from ShawTV with Kerri Favreau and her...
by Christopher Roy | May 1, 2015 | Inspiration
One of the most important principles behind our work is understanding how children learn through play. It informs all aspects of our better learning environment, furniture and toy design. Here’s a wonderful news story from ShawTV with Kerri Favreau and her...
by Christopher Roy | Apr 2, 2015 | Inspiration
Grace Chou from Monarch Montessori contacted us last year with her dream of opening a Montessori Preschool in beautiful Point Grey, Vancouver. The challenge was that her entire classroom needed to be tucked away each Friday and brought back to beauty Monday morning....
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by Christopher Roy | Apr 2, 2015 | Inspiration
Walking into any one of Jenna Goodie’s Love 2 Learn spaces, you can feel the love and care that infuse their programs. We had the opportunity to work with Jenna on her new preschool space last summer. It is blessed with lots of natural light and staff that never...
by Christopher Roy | Apr 2, 2015 | Inspiration
Our clients at Carlton House Child Care Centre and Preschool in Australia celebrated the opening of their new space this past week. Their new space is filled with Natural Pod furniture and toys – Play Stand with Arch, Kitchens, Imagination Station, Shelves,...
by Christopher Roy | Mar 12, 2015 | Inspiration
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Natural Pod – Share Your Invitation to Play ~ Win a Free $5000 Classroom contest. We’re reviewing all the final entries and going over the entry data to ensure every submission that made it into the top group did so...
by Christopher Roy | Feb 16, 2015 | Inspiration
In our work at Natural Pod, each day we get to connect and support educators in bringing their individual vision for their learning environment to life. Collaborating, creating and working together brings us such joy. It is in these conversations that we truly can...
by Christopher Roy | Feb 3, 2015 | Inspiration
We love being part of your natural, open-ended play community and want to thank you for being part of our success at Natural Pod. Over 20,000 of you are fans of Natural Pod on Facebook now and as a thank you we have extended our special offer on our sustainably made,...
by Christopher Roy | Jan 13, 2015 | Inspiration
Children the Heart of the Matter conference brings together all those involved in the care and education of young children. Their purpose is to raise the awareness and profile of child care and early childhood development services, family resource programs and others...
by Christopher Roy | Jan 2, 2015 | Inspiration
Welcome to a wonderful new year and and new opportunities for natural play. We’re delighted to launch our brand new 2015 catalog full of beautiful, sustainably designed furniture and manipulatives for making better learning environments. Download your free copy...
by Christopher Roy | Dec 16, 2014 | Inspiration
It’s been a great year for the movement of natural, open-ended play. To celebrate, we want to thank you for being part of this journey with us by offering you some exclusive offers to include more natural, sustainable play opportunities in your learning...
by Christopher Roy | Dec 5, 2014 | Inspiration
We’re so grateful for the kind words our clients. Here’s what Linda L’Orange, Andrew Fleck Childcare Services, Junior Preschool Program had to say about her recent experience working with Natural Pod to supply new furniture for her learning space. Here are...
by Christopher Roy | Dec 4, 2014 | Inspiration
We’re delighted to let our community know that we will be attending this weekend’s FNESC 20th Annual Aboriginal Education Conference. The conference will showcase innovative curriculum, inspiring people and networking opportunities. The First Nations...
by Christopher Roy | Dec 2, 2014 | Inspiration
What we love most about our work are the people we work with. We’re very proud of our natural play community here at Natural Pod and to celebrate some of the people in our community, we’ve started a short series we’re calling our Natural Play Community People...
by Christopher Roy | Nov 27, 2014 | Inspiration
The BC Buy Local campaign kicks off with BC Buy Local Week on December 1-7, 2014. Buy Local Week is an annual celebration of local business to promote the contributions that BC businesses make to our economy and our communities. The goal of the BC Buy Local...
by Christopher Roy | Nov 26, 2014 | Inspiration
KORXX are amazing block and stacking toys made entirely out of sustainably harvested cork. These stacking blocks are silent and durable for busiest builders in your space. They create the opportunity for hours of open ended play. Available in a wide variety of sizes,...