The Toucans enjoyed learning some fun facts about South Korea and knew they were about to start a project with children from the Imaginary Jungle school in Jeju island.
The Toucans are very excited to make friends from the other side of the world.We watched a presentation with Toucans to teach them about South Korea “ What does kimchi taste like?” “Is the volcano still alive?”
The Toucans class is a heterogeneous group with plenty of different nationalities and languages. These children are used to traveling and they were especially interested in knowing how Korea is 8 hours into the future meaning Sangsang jungle is full of children playing and learning while here in The Little Mole in Prague we are all still asleep.
The pathfinder was started by asking children to think of ways to share who they are with their new friends in Jeju Island. Then we had a conversation with Toucans about how to get our art and messages to our new friends in Juju island.
Children were asked to close their eyes and think about some questions like. Who are you? What makes you different from everyone else? What makes you unique? What do you like? What makes you smile? What can you do? How do you feel about yourself? How do you look like? And then they used this reflective moment to make a drawing to show who they are…The drawings were done in a coloured cardboard of their choice. What colour are we on the inside? After this self identity reflective exercise children were encouraged to take around 40 minutes to decide how to express who they are only using the resources previously mentioned using scissors and glue sticks. The main drawing had to be the centre of their art piece and children really enjoyed the free artistic experience so much. Toucans mentioned that the activity was a lot of fun. Toucans are very excited to see what kind of drawings/collages their new friends will make.
Kindly,
The Toucans from Little Mole
The 5-7 year old artists at Sang Sang Jungle in Jeju, Korea are making and sharing art with the 4-6 year old artists at The Little Mole International Preschool in Prague, Czech Republic. Their new friendship will blossom through creativity!
