Our classroom is moveable. We held various configurations depending on our intentions. Because the tables are so flexible, and hold so many bodies, we were able to use them in many different ways such as banquet-style for meal-times and large gatherings, to theatre...
Inspired by the resource, Beautiful Stuff we invited the children to fill our studio with their personal collections of beautiful materials. “I know what materials are: metal, wood, all the stuff you build houses with… books…whatever you can do stuff with, except...
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...
When I found out that I would be teaching Kindergarten, my heart leapt. I would finally have a physical space to translate the knowledge and passion I held for early childhood, especially those images inspired by Reggio Emilia schools. I had recently worked with...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
We were very lucky to receive 25 cedar blocks of different shapes, different lengths. When I first put them out onto the playground I had stacked them in three separate piles. We split the group of children into two, so the first group came out and they immediately...
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...
Turning Care into Change: Natural Pod at Champions Retreat 2026
