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Rewilding Children’s Imaginations

99 Creative Activities Inspired by Nature and Folktales from Around the World
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Rewilding Children’s Imaginations is a practical and creative guide that connects children with the natural world through 21 global folklore stories and 99 artistic activities. Spanning the seasons, it fosters engagement via storytelling, drama, visual arts, and movement, encouraging exploration of nature and folklore.

The book supports educators and facilitators by offering cross-curricular activities that nurture skills in oracy, creativity, collaboration, environmental care, and emotional wellbeing, helping children build confidence as active community creators.
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This book is ideal for primary teachers, early years professionals, outdoor educators, therapists, art educators, community and youth workers, home schoolers, parents, and carers seeking engaging, nature-inspired creative learning experiences for children.

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This practical and creative resource is designed to engage children in the natural world through folktales, storytelling, and artmaking. It is essential and enjoyable reading for primary teachers, outdoors practitioners, therapists, art educators, community and youth workers, home schoolers, parents, carers, and families.

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Rewilding Children’s Imaginations is a practical and creative resource designed to engage children in the natural world through folktales, storytelling, and artmaking.

The guide introduces 21 folklore stories from across the world alongside 99 creative activities, spanning nature and the four seasons of the year. Using the lens of folktales and myths of the land, children are encouraged to explore a variety of activities and exercises across different arts media, from visual art making to storytelling, drama, and movement.

This resource:

  • Helps teachers and group facilitators to build confidence in offering a range of creative learning experiences, inspired by nature.
  • Provides a collection of easy-to-use, cross-curricular and storytelling activities.
  • Allows children to connect with nature, their imagination, and folktales from around the world.
  • Builds new skills in oracy, artmaking, collaboration, wellbeing, care of the environment, diversity, respect, and tolerance, and more.
  • Inspires children to tell stories and make art both individually and collaboratively, helping them build confidence as active creators in their community.
  • Shares creative tools and positive learning experiences to inspire children, teachers, and parents across the school year.

Rewilding Children’s Imaginations brings together nature, art, and oral storytelling in easy and accessible ways to help children connect with the world around them, as well as with their own emotional landscapes. It is essential and enjoyable reading for primary teachers and early years professionals, outdoors practitioners, therapists, art educators, community and youth workers, home schoolers, parents, carers, and families.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032014562

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 100 Tables, black and white; 105 Line drawings, black and white; 105 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 820g

Pages: 220

About the Author

Pia Jones is an author, creative workshop facilitator and integrative arts psychotherapist, having trained at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. Pia has worked with children and adults in a variety of school, health, and community settings. A love for myth, art, and nature underpins her practice.

Sarah Pimenta is an artist, educator, creative workshop facilitator, illustrator, and lecturer in creativity. She has delivered art and print-making workshops in over 250 schools, diverse communities, and public venues internationally. Nature and social change are huge inspirations in her art and creative workshops.

Tamsin Cooke is an internationally published and award-winning children’s author, workshop facilitator, and former primary school teacher. She designs and runs innovative creative writing and drama workshops in schools across the UK and globally online.

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