About Fafunia
Fafunia may initially appear to be simply a bunch of quirky play things. A bit unusual perhaps, interesting definitely, and maybe even beautiful. But what can it really do for your child or your setting? There are three main reasons why you should consider using products from Fafunia or start collaborating with us to help improve the world of children.
Incorporating Fun
Fafunia is designed to be fun. We work with a design philosophy that demands open ended products that can adapt to play as it evolves. We use shapes, textures, colours and simplicity to achieve that.
We work really hard on making products that inspire children to find their own stories and ideas rather than following ours. We want the products to have endless possibilities and not have an obvious purpose so that the child will feel intrigued, maybe slightly puzzled and always inspired to create and collaborate with other children.
We work really hard on making products that inspire children to find their own stories and ideas rather than following ours. We want the products to have endless possibilities and not have an obvious purpose so that the child will feel intrigued, maybe slightly puzzled and always inspired to create and collaborate with other children.
Fafu is all about brain development.
Our key imaginator Tom Shea has a passion for childhood and works endlessly to create awareness so that parents and practitioners can recognise how the brain develops, and why we need to trust children more. We as adults need to slow down so that children will have time to enjoy their childhood and develop the skills and understanding for further learning.
Early childhood is the most important time for brain development. It is the time in children‘s lives where they start building peer relationships and the foundation for the people they will become. It is also a vital time for brain development.
The development of our brain’s structure is based on two main factors; experience shapes the properties of our neurons (experience dependent plasticity) and there are distinct time windows during early development that shape brain function. This means that while children play they are also organising their way of thought and how they acquire information and store it. They organise information based on the sensory stimulation that is associated with it and not the content of the information. The brain will then build systems of knowledge (neural networks), connecting together related information and enabling children to recall facts, evaluate circumstances, and solve problems.
The brain is designed to form memories as a survival strategy so that it can understand and predict an outcome of a possibly fatal situation. When threatened, the brain shifts into reactive mode and treats information as a short-term resource for survival. But when children are relaxed and enjoy learning, the brain will reflect on the information and a real learning opportunity occurs.
This is why we all struggle with learning things that bore us. The brain reacts to boredom in the same way it reacts to stress and anxiety and fails to reflect on the information and store it long term. We need to engage children in a variety of sensory stimulation and offer them opportunities to explore, imagine and create.
All of our products are developed in this scientific context. That means that we look at research on how the brain learns and develops and we connect it to educational theories.
Early childhood is the most important time for brain development. It is the time in children‘s lives where they start building peer relationships and the foundation for the people they will become. It is also a vital time for brain development.
The development of our brain’s structure is based on two main factors; experience shapes the properties of our neurons (experience dependent plasticity) and there are distinct time windows during early development that shape brain function. This means that while children play they are also organising their way of thought and how they acquire information and store it. They organise information based on the sensory stimulation that is associated with it and not the content of the information. The brain will then build systems of knowledge (neural networks), connecting together related information and enabling children to recall facts, evaluate circumstances, and solve problems.
The brain is designed to form memories as a survival strategy so that it can understand and predict an outcome of a possibly fatal situation. When threatened, the brain shifts into reactive mode and treats information as a short-term resource for survival. But when children are relaxed and enjoy learning, the brain will reflect on the information and a real learning opportunity occurs.
This is why we all struggle with learning things that bore us. The brain reacts to boredom in the same way it reacts to stress and anxiety and fails to reflect on the information and store it long term. We need to engage children in a variety of sensory stimulation and offer them opportunities to explore, imagine and create.
All of our products are developed in this scientific context. That means that we look at research on how the brain learns and develops and we connect it to educational theories.
Let us help you to enable your child to imagine, play and ultimately learn at their own pace while their brain develops and, most importantly, they have fun!
