ABSTRACT
This chapter rearticulates understandings of material-sheets of paper-to formulate what happens when we think with materials and apply them to early childhood development and classrooms. It begins with paper: ordinary, everyday newspaper. The Vancouver Sun, to be precise. This local newspaper had been delivered every morning to houses, condos, and apartments; read once and then discarded in curbside recycling bins. In early childhood, materials are closely connected to making. They are often set out for children to make or create something with, frequently with the assumption that children are full of ideas just waiting to be expressed through paper materials. Paper has its own inclinations. It acts on and with the water, with the walls, the floors, the door, and the children's bodies. Movement with paper is both rhythm and repetition-the doing and undoing-filling, emptying, sweeping, covering, uncovering. In thinking about making, it would be a mistake to think these movements are sequential or continuous in a linear sense.
