Here is the beginning of the transformation- from a blank canvas to a workshop where imagination and creativity flow.
I’m slowing adding materials to the shelving- and discovering what I can put at toddler-height!
Karuna and Austin painting their first watercolor resists on oil pastel drawings.
Exploring new materials
This is the studio- a blank canvas waiting for it’s true potential to be revealed. I can’t wait to get started!
Here is an excerpt from the beautiful poem by Loris Malaguzzi, the founder of the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education- along with photos of kids exploring their “100 languages” (from my previous work as a studio teacher). It helps to constantly remind me of the intrinsic creativity in everyone!
The Hundred Languages of Children
The child
is made of one hundred.
The child has
a hundred languages
a hundred hands
a hundred thoughts
a hundred ways of thinking
of playing, of speaking.
A hundred always a hundred
ways of listening
of marveling of loving
a hundred joys
for singing and understanding
a hundred worlds
to discover
a hundred worlds
to dream.
The child has
a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
– excerpt from poem by Loris Malaguzzi
