Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

At our home, we encourage the kids to imagine and create stories. It was something we started last year, when Anya and I made a little forest as part of our arts and crafts sessions, and a whole lot of underwater sea creatures!

I wanted to stimulate their imagination. To imagine a storyline, and to actually say what they have in mind.

And ever since Vai created his own shark and diver story, we’ve sort of ADDED more and more animals to their bedroom walls.

We have underwater creatures on one wall, and land animals on another (like, a tapir, an elephant, a mouse, a cat, a crocodile, etc).

[Note: They’d choose an animal from a picture book, I’d draw the animal, they’d then watercolour it and finally I’d outline it with black-coloured crayon and cut it out]

And to make it easier for the kids to take the animals off the wall and stick them back on during their storytelling session, I use sticky tapes (and when it’s no longer sticky, I replace the tape with new ones).

So now, I can sit on their bed while listening to the kids going, ‘Once upon a time … ‘ and go from one wall to another with different creatures in their hands.

Mommy relaxes. And kids talk.

It’s good.