Creativity: Spontaneous Stories and Drawings

He so loves silliness, my bursting-with-energy, most rambunctious at night, 3 years old . . .
or 41 months old or 176 weeks old or 1233 days old or 29592 hours old or 1775574 minutes old or 106534464 seconds old and, your next birthday is in 229 days 9 hrs 6 mins 36 secs right now son! LOL!
Reading is now very action oriented. When he reads about something, he wants to make it, tell his own story or draw about it. I truly believe that he lives in the stories and drawings that fills his head..... So here we go:

ART

I cut apart an egg carton and made two 3-sectioned pieces. E painted it green.
While the painted egg cartons were left drying, E starting cutting out legs, wings, eye parts for his two bugs, they are the..............

Grasshopper!
If you add a superball under the mid section with two pins sticking out from the sides of the ball, you can turn this into a jumping grasshopper that stabilizes itself.

Me by E


Daddy by E


Airplane

We read about and did activities on transportation today. So E wanted to draw some....

Racecar

In line with Montessori methodology, there's never a forced learning situation at home. My sometimes too exuberant son really learns from the freedom to truly and creatively express himself (dramatically as well). It's a huge blessing for me to witness magic results once again as I did years ago with my two, now teen aged sons. I endeavor to, daily, with respect added on to love for my children, enjoy and celebrate the rhythm of their growth!

"We seem as a species to be driven by a desire to make meanings: above all, we are surely homo significans—meaning-makers." (Chandler, 2002, p. 17)

"Young children are meaning-makers par excellence. They use many signs to create meaning and to represent reality within the medium of drawing-telling. Their artistic communication involves a combination of both verbal and non-verbal texts, such as artworks which incorporate narration, music that has lyrics, or dance which includes expressive vocalisation. So, in a broad sense, such texts are an 'assemblage of signs'" (Chandler, 2002, p. 3).