Barns samspel i leken med färdigt och ofärdigt material

Sammanfattning: The purpose of our study is to investigate how children interact in play with prepared and non-prepared material respectively to contribute with the knowledge of childrens opportunities for different ways of interaction. The study was performed with a qualitative consisting of observation including video observation and field notes. Two different departments from a preschool in south of Sweden participated in the observations. The theoretical base of the study is a social cultural perspective which in this study means focus on interaction with the material and other children. In the the result it is stated that children use their imagination to give non-prepared material new not foreseen purposes. The symbolic weight of prepared material is the base of how children use it. When children interact with different materials the conditions for different types of interactions and feelings are created. In our study we could see that children themselves prefer play with prepared material however children tend to interact more between the when playing with non-prepared material.