#playscientist

Even eating can be fun!

9 of December of 2024

With little, children create a lot. It's not the first time I've said something like that. Their originality and creativity goes beyond what we can imagine.

Where do they get their ideas? Painting your body is normal, what child or adult has never done it? But do we know what they want to convey or represent? Can you see where these 8-year-old children, from a public school in Porto, Portugal, got this idea? A heartbeat just like in a hospital machine.

It was a fantastic day in these children's @imaginário. Today they developed concentration, attention to detail, motor skills in an exploratory way through drawing and painting materials by observing a human figure.

Each child observed the same figure and used drawing and painting materials to communicate what they saw and felt, through the figure model.

Can you imagine, this wonderful moment?

Do you ever, as a responsible adult, who is reading these words, remember how it was to play with mud what you felt and what you did and what you made happen?

Can you remember the feeling of freedom, the imagination, the creativity of having the power to do whatever you wanted?

If you can't imagine, stop, close your eyes, relax, take a deep breath and return to that moment, when you were a child and all of that was possible. Do you want to take that moment away from your children or students?

It feels so great when we connect with others throu silly faces.

I enjoy very much making them at home, at school, in the street, at the groucery, in the bus...Play is using everything we got, not ONLY external material, but our self, our body, our words, our movements, our imagination, even if we don't have anykind of toy we can play.

Play is to BE creative and imagine behound our bounderies.