Children from HEMS School in Kathmandu, Nepal express their own thoughts and share stone-pebbles to create what is important to them. It can be a helicopter, a temple, a flower and or ‘Five Birthday cakes’ with smaller stones on top as five candles. This opportunity promotes self-reliance, opportunities to make decisions on their own, such as to create by one- self or partner up. Children learn to solve social challenges such as not to take another's stone to getting a stone for another. They learn to handle the actual construction of their creation and give it a name.
They start by carrying over the stones from a barrel, deciding where to build, copying others and or make it as they want and changing it. The younger children made shapes they have learned in the classroom or suggested by the teacher, such as a square, a circle or a triangle. This opportunity allows them to do this artistic project over and over and have it be permanent for a while in their impermanent world.
This opportunity promotes self-reliance, opportunities to make decisions on their own, such as to create by themselves or partner up. Children learn to solve social challenges such as not to take another's stone to getting a stone for another. They learn to handle the actual construction of their creation and give it a name. They start by carrying over the stones from a barrel, deciding where to build, copying others and or make it as they want and changing it. The younger children made shapes they have learned in the classroomor suggested by the teacher, such as a square, a circle or a triangle. Sharing stones, a ready natural resource allows children artistic expression. They can create and recreate. . Stonework Play offers a child a tangible mirror of self in their impermanent world.
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