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CREATE A WORLD : Our Blue Planet

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Editor,

Anne-Grethe Kousgaard

January 3, 2016 2 Mins Read

Materials Needed:

1 large round plate around 120 cm in diameter.
2 or 3 paper or wooden plates, as large as you can find.
Blue, white and green acrylic paint and brushes.
Natural materials of all kinds: small and large stones, gravel, soil, straw, grass, moss, pieces of wood, plants, branches, sea shells, bones, clay etc.

Our planet is called the blue planet. Do you know why?

From space it looks like a blue ball. This is due to the oceans that you find on our planet.

What else can you see when you look at our blue planet?

Do you see different continents, cold and warm regions, virgin forests, deserts, mountains, rivers and cities? Can you also imagine another blue planet: a dream planet that only you know about? Imagine what that world is like. Now, close your eyes and visualise our mother earth or your dream blue planet. What is the thing that you like most about it? What would you like to see on your planet?

Choose a friend or two to build your planet. First spend some time sharing what you would each like to build and how you see the planet. Start by painting the large plate blue. Then build up a world together on that blue plate. Put a sacred place in the centre of the world. Place stones of all size as mountains and hills. They can be decorated with white paint for snow and green for grass. Place moss, gravel and earth, and trees. The sea can be a blue painted bowl with water in it. You can make small animals, humans or any kind of creature for your world, and choose where they should be placed.