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....
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,...
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...
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...
It’s been a year since our loft was installed. During that time it has been many things and taken us on many adventures… we have snuggled into a house and had sleep-overs, visited a hospital, nested in a birdhouse, decorated a castle, worked and shopped in a...
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...
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,...
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...