I occasionally do creativity “preservation” sessions with kiddies. They are wonderful to work with. I once had a little princess (Isabel) and her chess-champ brother (Adam) over. They made this beautiful castle:
with this beautiful damsel:
and this super-strong superhero on his way to save the day:
We made our own custom tower-heads and carriages. When Isabel wanted me to pass her the blue she asked: “do you maybe have sea color?”.
How nice to see the world in your palette.
Then there was Emily the three-eared giant (so that she could listen better) by the lovely princess Isabel:
She is bigger than my husband (what he wouldn’t do for me:))
I recently had another little girl that came over for the second time. The first time was a little bit hard on me, because the little one didn’t speak a lot, which meant, I had to balance out the conversation ALL IN GERMAN (whew!).
So, we set up another date to play and wonder.
This meant getting ready. In preparation, I read the german version of “The Little Prince” aloud to my husband at breakfast in an attempt to loosen the tongue a little, should conversation be up to me, you know? I also removed gold from the palette for the session, as, in our first session, she made EVERYTHING in her best-loved color: gold:).
We decided to make fantasy animals, by drawing our favorite animals, cutting them up and using their parts to create our own animals.
Now, with gold removed from the palette I wondered what was coming. Surprise number one: she talked!! Yay! Then she made the most beautiful peacock, an oh-so-cute owl, a butterfly, a horse within a camp (so that he couldn’t runaway) and a flamingo with an egg hanging mid-air (so cute!!!!!!!).
As you can see the animals are super-cute. I felt nervous…
Would she really want to cut them up?
SO, I cut my animals up and glued my new animal friends into shape. When she was ready I assured her that she didn’t have to cut them up if she didn’t want to. And, to be honest, not sure I would’ve had the courage if they were mine… Then, without any hesitation, she cut off the legs of the peacock!!! [shocked!]
Here are her fantasy animals:
Strutting Rorse and Flutterfly
Flying Chorse
Flamingowl with magic wand (the pink oval shape was the flamingo’s egg)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen: that was natural creativity for you in action.
We can only learn from them.
play for all & all for play
-liesel-
Wow! Beautiful and inspiring 🙂
Thanks Colette, would you like to come over for a session? I would like that:)
Oh wow, I love the “creativity preservation” idea! The kids sure made some fabulous pieces. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Christie, imagine if we could preserve the natural ability that kiddies have to be creative, how the world could be more looked after. I do believe that the answer to all the worlds problems lies in creativity. To creativity!
What fun sessions! I love how you are working with kids like this.
Thank you Laney xx
I wanna play with you too Liesel 😉 Invite me over and let’s play!!!
You are welcome anytime! xx
I think it’s beyond awesome that your hubby would lay down and take that pic for you. Love your blog. Thanks for subscribing to mine!
He is lovely. He once let me make a picture of him playing the victim at a crime scene. What can I say – sometimes you need real reference material:) I am delighted to have him!