#powerfulpedagogy

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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.

What if one day, a child presents you with a small personal project that he started to create, just with a few sheets of white paper, colored pencils and a scissors?

What a delight it was to arrive at school at 8am and be presented with a sticker book, made by Gabriel, a 7-year-old boy.

Who has never had a sticker book?

Another day developing children's imagination. This time, at Arts Club, we explore paper, cutting and creativity

We create the world through collage!

How interesting and delightful it is to watch children explore materials in their own way.

They communicate with us in a unique way, some use the abstract, others choose small detailed cuts and we still have those who use the material in its total form, without cuts, they just assemble and glue them.

Their exploration is great in order to create what they want.

Will these children remember these processes?

Drawing, what a wonderful activity to develop our children’s creativity and dexterity.

Do children just have to draw on sheets of paper with colored pencils or felt-tip pens?

What if we gave children different materials to draw and paint in several types of supports? How far would their abilities go? Can you imagine what can hapen with new ways to expand themselfs?

Today we use sunlight to draw and paint our shadows, on the floor, with chalk.

Drawings that the rain will wash away, but children's memories will not.

What do children learn from this activity?

What a great day mixing colours!!

Another fantastic day at the children's @imaginário.

Today we explored colours by mixing them. We used the primary colours, white and black. We also use a scale as a way to create recipes and be able to recreate the same colours later.

To finish, each child named their colour...do you want to discover the colours we created?

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?