Creature For A Day

Creating creature masks

Throughout the week, we have been taught and re-taught how to play and use our childlike tendencies while in the woods. Today, we got the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of children and it was inspiring to say the least. The children we engaged with today really enjoyed the opportunity to use their imagination within nature while making their animal masks. One group of children all decided if given the opportunity to be an animal they would all be different species of rabbits; jack rabbit, bunny rabbit, and a cotton tail rabbit. After they finished making their masks, they thought it would be fun to play a game and pretend to be those animals in the woods.

Creatures!

The children later suggested adding another animal to the game, a bear, where it would chase the rabbits around in the woods, much like reality. A different group with more children had a more diverse set of animal masks, ranging from a cat, dog, baboon, and a girl monkey. They let their imagination take over and created their most favorite animal.

Assir Abushouk, Katie Johnson and Britani Lolley