Our Imaginations Coming to Life

With children and their development, nothing is more important than imagination to help with the growth of thought processes and creativity. Children that are able to get away from it all and place themselves, mentally, in another world are more likely to be able to think "outside the box" and produce more creative results when learning and working. For this reason, the importance of imagination cannot be underestimated and should be encouraged when raising children.

Because they were talking about castles and ladders during our tape project, we are providing every opportunity to make their imaginations come to life..........

The Little Wonders Studio Director and the Class Teachers worked together to use the materials they painted and created, and worked with the children to create a castle!  We recorded and wrote down dialogue from the children's conversations, discussed our observations, and

here you have our final product!!!!!

Jack was the leader in the ladder!  From the very beginning when the poles were first in the class, he said that it was a ladder!  Everyone followed his direction, and here you have the ladder to the castle!

We mixed primary colors and discovered what colors they made to paint our boxes for our castle.  This was so much fun for us, and most of all it helped the members of our class who don't know our colors work on remembering them!

We made tiny ladders with popsicle sticks.  This was fun!  We counted and counted so many times to see who had the most sticks on his/her ladder!

Finally, today, we finished up the BIG ladder!  This is the one that goes on the BIG castle!  It helps us climb up to "get away from the bumble bees!"  (This is what the children told us today!  They were all hidding in the castle to get away from bumble bees!)

How much fun we had in the castle!  It was "gark" inside ~ dark :0)

We even had two doors that opened and closed with drawstrings!  This was so much fun crawling in and out of it.  But shhhhhhh, make sure not to make any noise, because the bumble bees might hear you!!!!!!

Jonathan is always on the look out!  He will scream really loud if anything is coming! ;0)

This is so much fun!  We are having fun listening to the dialogue of the children and coming up with ways to make their imaginations come true!  We believe in the importance of creativity and allowing our children to experience the possibilies of thier imaginations!
Please take a few minutes to click on the following link to hear Ken Robinson speak about the importance of creativity in children......

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html