The identification and learning of colours represents a very important stage in the development of the child. In early childhood, between the ages of two and six, little ones learn to distinguish colours by associating them with their names, starting with the primary colours, and subsequently including the many shades that exist in the rainbow.

Workshops about the colours of the four seasons was created from the desire to share the world of nature with the little ones in the simplest way possible: by connecting the colour wheel with the life cycle of the seasons.

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Structure of the BOOK

The volume offers indoor and outdoor hands-on and sensorial workshops to carry out as individual and group activities, to learn and experience firsthand, with all the senses, the origin of colours following the colour cycle which is typical of the 4 seasons during the school year: starting therefore from the colours of autumn, each colour is introduced by a poem that activates the emotional world of the child through words, followed by the experiential activities of contact with the material, inspired by the Land Art movement .

The book is divided into 12 sections, each of which is dedicated to a colour. Each section is divided into 4 workshops. Each colour, and therefore each section, is also introduced by a poem.

Structure of the workshops

At the beginning of each workshop, practical information useful for its implementation is provided. The information is divided into:

• recommended age of the children;
• organization of the work according to the participants (individual or group);
• length of time;
• didactic objectives;
• necessary materials.

In order to facilitate a multidisciplinary exploration of the volume, the didactic areas involved in each laboratory are marked with logos. The areas of expertise are divided into Research and discovery, Arts, Socio-emotional education

Each activity proposed in the workshops is accompanied by the following logos, which specify whether it takes place outdoors or indoors.

Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

THE AUTHORS

Angelica Manca Co-founder of Hoopla Education, she graduated in Psychology from the University of Kent, England. She has been working in the world of education since 2002 as an author of creative teaching materials. In 2014, she moved towards education for sustainable development and created The Garden Project, a successful educational programme in 17 countries around the world and winner of the prestigious ELTons award in 2020.

Paul Frank Wagner Co-founder of Hoopla Education, he is a world-renowned French conceptual artist who grew up in New York, strongly influenced by his relationship with nature, in particular with the ocean and forests. His works have been exhibited in the United States, France and Italy. Since 2014 he has been carrying out creative workshops with children on the theme of nature and, in 2018, he launched Sticks and Stones, the first educational programme for children dedicated to Land Art.