Enjoy being inventive:
Build inspiring Worlds With Me in these classroom adventures.
My incursions bring joy to being creative. Joy is what sparks creative genius.
I find that each time we build a world that’s based on the interests and talents of one or more children, the whole class is inspired to shine with their’s too. And any time a child says “I can’t.", it quickly turns into “Wow, look what I just did!”
Throughout each class, while we’re building worlds, we also find creative ways to show what makes everyone shine; by making collages, posters and badges everyone takes home.
Why is it important now?
Creativity remains the most in-demand, number one skill by employers worldwide. And the Global Creative Economy keeps steadily growing.
Together, we’re preparing them to be creative leaders in their future workplace.
Inspired by my incursions? Have an idea? Let’s expand on that together on a call! I’d love to support.
Structure
Age group: 3–12 year
Duration: 1 hour
No minimum group size
Requirements: Indoor space, tables, coloured pencils, access to power. I supply the rest.
Cost: $15 per child.
Children take home: their design and a talent badge
Delivery
10min: Short inspiring video of how stuff works. Then reflecting together on it.
45 min: building worlds.
5min: cleaning up together.
Sustainability topics
How big systems work and interrelate: from nature, waste recycling centres to food supply and us.
Energy: It’s what makes us all and everything work, and new engineering inventions possible.
EYLF & MTOP
Children have a strong sense of identity: They develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and agency. They develop knowledgeable, confident self-identities and a positive sense of self-worth. They learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect.
Children are connected with and contribute to their world: They develop a sense of connectedness to each other, groups and communities.
Children have a strong sense of wellbeing: They become strong in their social, emotional and mental wellbeing. They become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing.
Children are confident and involved learners: They develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, persistence, imagination an reflexivity. They develop a range of learning an thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.
Children are effective communicators: They express ideas and make meaning using a range of media and technologies.
NQS
1.1.2 Child-centred
1.1.3 Program learning opportunities
1.2.2 Responsive teaching and scaffolding
1.2.3 Child directed learning
1.3.2 Critical reflection
international baccalaureate
Learner Profiles made practical so that they build their own rituals of knowing their unique strengths.
ATL skills (Approaches To Learning): Turning those strengths into essential learning skills for life.
Inquiry-based learning: learning by asking, investigating, experimenting and reflecting.
Transdisciplinary themes: Addressing big, real-world challenges using many subjects and skills at once.
Community & global awareness, to unfold compassion, responsibility and action.
incursions I Offer
Bake Me A Business
This is an inspiring incursion full of joy, giggles and laughter. It lets children enjoy being creative, designing inventive solutions to neighbourhood challenges with inspired teamwork using cookie dough. And at the end, they get to eat their designs!
Topics include:
Sustainability such as energy, farming and waste recycling.
Big systems like airports, hospitals, train stations, shopping centres, even your school.
And much more.
Food sensitivities: catered for using 2 different doughs stored separately.
Hygiene: disposable gloves and aprons supplied.
Requirements: An oven. Alternatively, I can bring a portable air fryer.
Time: 90 minutes
Why is it called Bake Me A Business? Because it lets children unfold the creative abilities employers worldwide express needing in their businesses.
Image: Farm in collaboration with Lismore Heights OSHC @ Northern Rivers Children’s Services.
Fold me a farm
From paper, we make scale models to explore big systems like farms and airports. We reflect on:
How and why they work.
How they relate to both us and other systems like nature.
We then build our own inventions for how it could work in harmony!
Requirements: Colouring in pencils and markers.
Once we start, children normally are inspired to keep adding to it each day for a few days.
Image courtesy of: https://chromaela.com/programs/preschool/
Engineer Me an Escape-pod
We go on adventure, to escape a polluted environment. What shall we build with LEGO to get out of here!? Using LEGO we build planes, rockets, launchpads, future airports.
By building them we explore how our engineering contraptions work.
Requirements: LEGO. If you don’t have LEGO, let me know.
Image: Assisting Myra Virtue in expanding on her design and the children’s construction of a pirate ship at Clunes OSHC @ Northern Rivers Children’s Services.
Construct me a cubby house
Exploring the world of pirates and different parts of the world, we build cardboard boxes and tunnel networks into cubby houses to role play in.
By building them we learn about our strengths in architecture, engineering and interior decorating.
Requirements: Boxes supplied.
Image edited and courtesy of: https://www.turborallycardracing.com/new-blog/diy-shoebox-ramp
Raise me a ramp
From boxes, we make ramps and tunnels to test our cars.
We learn about:
Our engineering strengths
Teamwork
Forces of motion, friction, collision.
Requirements: Toy cars. In addition, I bring a remote controlled car too.
Book an incursion
Have a project or a special day you need an incursion for? Give me a call, I’d love to support.
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krister@magicgarden.rocks
Chatswood, NSW, Australia