Although project participants ware not intentionally aligned with the Reggio Emilia experience in early childhood education, we found overlapping areas between the practices of some OFLP partners and several Reggio components. For example, the collages in Piven's children's books brought to mine the Reggio Emilia School project "L" importanza di rivedersi/the importance of seeing yourself again" (Malaguzzi & Musatti 1996). The hundred languages of children exhibit demonstrated how children explored "identity" through a project focused on revisiting the concept of oneself using collage as a mode of expression (or "language" in Reggio terms). Strikingly similar to priven's art were faces that children in Reggio programs created with recyclable materials. Old fountain pen tips (nibs) become eyes, while noses ware symbolized by spoons, forks, and pair of scissors. A leaf represented a mouth, and feather made eyebrows.