Studio Blue is eager and enthusiastic for our outdoor excursions, and the camaraderie is palpable!
We’ve noticed themes of interest:
HEIGHT
Children wanting to get up high, to climb, to hold things up high. (When we arrived at the giant pile of woodchips, one child exclaimed, It’s mountain time!!!)
HOLES
An interest in holes; children will shout into holes, saying “HELLO! WHO’S THERE?!” or shout to each other if the holes are connected, as in Campfire Girls, which has a large pipe into which Kyla and Caroline shouted to each other.
GREETING
This theme of greeting one another is evident not only at Campfire Girls, but when we are at the glass house (Crazy Spheroid – Two Entrances) and at the tall, narrow Lupus. There can also be an element of “peek-a-boo” as with Emily and Luca at the Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories sculpture.
DRAWING
– with sticks, fingers, pine cones, or with their whole bodies (making snow angels), in snow, mud, dirt.
WRITTEN LANGUAGE
– whether on the sculpture placards, the “No climbing” signs, or the “signatures” etched into the base of Drippy Droppy (which Asha dubbed “sculpture letters.”)
And then, sometimes there’s something that stops us all in our tracks, such as when we found workers cutting down trees with chainsaws and putting them into a woodchipper!
