Suggestions to myself: The idea is simple. Think creatively and communicate. Use the higher functioning capacities you have to survive, grow healthy and be strong. It is what we must do as a nation. This involves creative energy available when we play together. Think peace. The sage rules from purest motives. We all have within …
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44 Seconds of Science and Art Through Play
In this 44 second video we see young children at Bayside Discovery Learning Center having fun exploring and developing early science and art concepts and skills (STEAM) using discarded plastic containers donated by Harris Corporation, red and yellow caps donated by Collins Aerospace, and colorful fabric pieces donated by Jobbeedu. Through play, the children spontaneously …
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Free Play,…Let Your Mind Imagine
On Saturday and Sunday, April 24 & 25, 2021, my wife Kitty, our daughter Gita, and Kiwanis friend Cindy Forstall and I provided hands-on creative play and art making activities at the 36th Annual Melbourne Art Festival “Kids’ World”. For two days boys and girls of different ages, parents and grandparents, came by our tent …
PLAY IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD
Whether done as a silent solitary play experience or as a cooperatively with friends, Self Active Play with open-ended materials is a lot of fun! Since COVID 19 arrived in March I have been exploring a virtual variation using hands-on play with three-dimensional materials via Zoom. For more than 40 years I have been researching …
Openings Within Us
On December 18, 2018 during a From Play to Practice workshop in Ontario, CA, Cynthia wrote in her journal….. I played with the blocks. When I first began, I created a maze. The maze started out with all these block walls, with no openings anywhere. Kind of like how I was feeling. I felt as …
On Selling a Painting
Jody expressed her interest in one of my recent painting “Five Friends”, a study of texture, form, color, composition and connection. One of my favorite paintings from 2020. Rough burlap pieces shaped and painted in relationship to one another. I see the rough texture of the burlap as beautiful. I discovered dramatic visual intersections and …
Blocks So Happy to Receive Such Joyful News..
On July 28, 2020 I received this photograph and message addressed to Dr. Walter Drew: “I have the best memories of playing with your blocks as a child and now my children play with them too. Thank’s for making the best kids toys that stand the test of time.” -Hannah Hart. On July 29 I …
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Hands, Heart and Mind
My son Benjamin is 38 years old. He recently shared a memory he had of playing on the floor with some open-ended materials when he was 8 years old. He was very pleased with something fantabulous he had built. When I had asked him how he did that he replied, “with my hands”. I have …
Easing Emotional Grief
During a moment of silent solitary play at a block workshop sponsored by Child Care Resources of Indian Rive County in Vero Beach, Florida on October 4, 2018, Mirna wrote her journal…… “It made me reflect on certain situations pertaining to my state of mind at this moment. I have a loved one going through …
Self Active Play & ShivaSutra #26
Awakening Creative Potential Discovering inner power to create harmony and order in our lives is a worthy goal for young children, as well as adults. Realizing that self active play is a source of creative energy, a positive force and safe context for developing self knowledge, encourages us to exercise and express that inner power. …
Drew Thoughts 