Thankyou @Ryani 
Yes, absolutely - that kitten really is so cute!
My heart also completely belongs to that (as @OLVL says) ‘little black cat with the BIG kind heart’ beautifully made by Sophia 
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Wow, so awesome!! @Joanne, you’ve completely made my day seeing your beautiful paper house 
Would definitely love to hear how you built it, Joanne ? 
Was wondering if you wrapped different papers around something, like maybe a pencil, to build each part? It looks so wonderful ! 
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Thank you @JayElf . Nina’s Origami project is so inspiring!
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This is so cool - I would love to see the video of moving circles!
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I did it! The folding diagram is perfect - the pictures are easy to follow, and it has just enough texts to get me through some difficult parts. I also learned a bit about Azadi Tower (from Wikipedia page) :)
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It is amazing and so inspiring! 
The spiral is growing so fast!..I still impressed by the first steps @tarmelop and thinking about recording the poem in Ukrainian 
, only start to imagine how paper house @JayElf opens its door for a new journey 
… And the song @frjurado is already here! And new images, dreams, and ideas asked to be realized 
I totally agree with @JayElf - “I cannot tell you how much this deeply moving, spiralling, growing, evolving project is inspiring me (and many others, in many places, I know) still further all the time…” So, hoping and looking forward for to be continued… 
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Great job! So lovely paper house! 
It mentions to me how my son was excited by making anything from paper and by different ways: modeling, origami, modular origami, and like this. I wondered how he can make so many small wrapped parts. Thank you for sharing! Your paper house is an important part of the inspiration spiral!
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I am a bit behind on Mother’s Day & bound to the house bc I have gotten COVID (I am ok & healing - pls everyone stay safe !). I have identified the perimeters of a project for me to complete this week : a belated Mother’s Day gift. The guidelines are : use only what I have at the house, no food as a gift, and no handmade card / art as the gift.
My mom really loves word puzzles & games - and is often doing them on her phone. I am going to make her a game that she can play again and again either on her own or with someone, that is handmade / analog.
Am sharing here at this stage in solidarity & also to keep myself accountable in completing this.
Ta Ta For Now !!
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Beautiful !!
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Wow, @steggie !! how awesome!
this sounds such a lovely gift 
and get well soon @Shay 
a mi me gusta cocinar, creo que desde alli se pueden manejar muchas herramientas y tambien el contacto con los niños
WOW! This is great! I am so excited that you made it @steggie
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Amani I had the chance to interact the physical world with the digital using Chromville app and Chromville science, I recommend you to see them, maybe you can get some ideas from it.
Hi all, really I’m in this course because I’m involved in my biggest project (until know).
I’m trying to write a book about digital education talking about values, skills and digital creativity to develop a digital humanity.
I’m lucky to have a closefriend who is designer and she is forcing me to explore new ideas, like the “book should colonize” my home. I show you what’s is this in the photo.
And I´m also doing a process diary in which I gather all my lessons learned in the process. My first chapter is how I got the idea. And the following chapters describe all the challenges I’m encountering (physical, emotional, technological, …). That is helping me to analyze my work and create new stages with new tools each time.
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Hi,
I can’t open your project. It look’s it isn’t shared?
Best regards
Paweł
What an amazing project. I hear your passion in your voice. You used the work of your peers to collaborate and create a most excellent project. Well done. You have a lot to be proud of.
Thank you all for your contributions to this project.
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(Catching up to old assignments due to some events)
So last weekend we took the kids out for a walk in a different part of the forest near us. My eldest (3.5) started collecting rocks and putting them in her pockets. She kept collecting so many her pockets were bulging and her pants wouldn’t stay up anymore, hahaha. Then after awhile, she wanted to give some of her rocks to people we met during out walk.
She took the rocks home, and the next day I had the idea of potentially painting the rocks. I’ve never done anything like that before, not really being a handicrafts person, but I have some acrylic paint from that one time I tried decorating a cabinet myself.
I suggested the idea to my eldest, who was very psyched about it. First iteration, we each took one acrylic pen (she blue, I yellow) and we painted over some of the rocks she had with her. Observations:
- She isn’t interested in representational shapes or patterns, while I really get a kick out of making the rocks “prettier”. I notice I have to step back from my own investment in the outcome to give her space to explore. Then again, I do like art, so I took 2 rocks from the dozens we have and focussed on those for my own drawing haha.
- She got a huge kick out of us working together to mix our blue and yellow paint and wanted to keep doing that.
- At the end, she seemed to prefer the rocks I painted over her own, which made me wonder if it’s helpful if I paint a few rocks and then just give them to her to continue with. I’m unsure.
At the end I suggested she could give these painted rocks to people too, and she got super excited about that. So during our afternoon walk, she handed the rocks to various neighbours.
I realize now in retrospect, that’s actually the entire spiral:
Imagine: Rock collecting + idea of painting
Create: Actual painting
Play: Mixing paint and handling the rocks afterward
Share: Giving the rocks away (or showing them)
The day after we tried some other paints I had as well with some new rocks we found. I suggested we’d try to find more smooth rocks for painting, and we now tried using brushes and other paint colors. Unfortunately the other paints didn’t look as good so we went back to the pens. I’m considering buying more of the acrylic pens now.
The rocks are drying now, and my daughter is excited to give them away again.
Things I’m noticing in the process:
- Maybe I’m too directive? I noticed in the literature (the golf course) that Mitch generated his ideas himself. On the other hand, in the video I presume teachers and educators gave some feedback/input for the more complicated projects kids were working on?
- Maybe I’m too restrictive? I’m a little nervous about the paint getting on furniture or clothing. I’m not even entirely sure if that matters with acrylic paint! It’s kind of reflexive for me to assume it does… I should probably look that up. And maybe also buy her her own set of paints, cause I keep fussing a little about her damaging the brushes or the pens cause they are quite expensive. However, cheaper paint probably doesn’t work well with the rocks … I guess there is an element of already knowing the territory a bit if you want to give a kid more freedom cause then you can foresee reasonable bounds in advance.
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