Games:
- Donkey - Rabbit (make a bunny tail), elephant (make a trunk), jello (wiggle wiggle), donkey (do nothing)!
- GAK - molding into shapes. i made a belt!
- The Sky Is Falling - free form when "the sky is falling" is shouted
- The Gift - YOU get to decide what your gift is and your partner tells you why they gave it to you
My favorite game was donkey because you had to be quick on your toes but it was still fun. It made you anxious and you participated on someone else turn just to keep you active. very fun. and when you got caught, it wasn't bad. it didn't make you feel bad. it was more funny than it was depressing.
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Chapter 1: "The Promise of Play"
In this chapter, we learned about play and how its not only the key to being happy but also used for social relationships and being a creative, innovative person. (p.6) Different aspect we read about were play as a catalyst where we read about Laurel, a CEO who's married with two children. she was missing joy so she went back to something she loved, riding horses. That carried with her through her work and time with her family so she no longer dreaded her schedule. I agree with the idea of play as a catalyst because when you have something that you love or you have an experience filled with joy, you can think back on that specific thing and bring back that euphoric feeling you felt at the time making your days much better if you aren't having a bad day. Have you ever had that happen? Maybe you're walking and something that happened a while ago comes to mind and you begin to smile or laugh. That's play working as a catalyst. "Those who worked and played with their hands as they were growing up were able to "see solutions" that those who hadn't worked with their hands could not." (p.10)
- Lynne wasn't sick, she was a dancer.
The above point opened my eyes on how quick we are to bring our problems to the hands of science. Lynne's mother was so quick to decide her daughter was sick and needed medicine instead of sitting down and trying to figure out her daughters needs. It also illustrates the fact we are not as open to different methods of learning or varied results of normalcy. What was normal for Lynne, (dancing), her mother didn't understand her inability to sit down was normal and her method of learning.
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Journal Prompt #1 (206-216)
I have always felt free to do and be what i chose. My mom along with my whole family encourages spontaneity and creativeness in ourselves and I'm so lucky to have them support that idea. Yes, its a part of my life now because is a part of me. Those are two of my biggest traits that i love about myself. My creativeness and the fact that I'm a very spontaneous person. Impediments to play in my life i would say would include when slowly but surely, my siblings begin to get older and leave the house (college). Some kinds of play disappeared from my repertoire because of the above impediments. Being that i am the youngest, i had less and less siblings to play with until it was just me. and so play being to end for me. Ways i have discovered of re initiating lost play were by befriending people who were just as playful as me and I'm happy to say that today, i have some of the best friends ever. Also, i now have nieces and a nephew who LOVE to play and so for me, it like starting over. i get to teach them games and they also teach me new games they may have learned.
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