Post-it and a Marker - One Entire Afternoon of Fun
I was going to give a talk to sales floor colleagues about product knowledge. The theme was to "discover, appreciate and get involved" with everyday stationery objects. So in addition to showing all those creative stuffs you can find on the net (post-it bikini, tricks, hacks, hacks, deco, ads, ads, ads, ads, etc), I showed how a pack of post-it and a marker could fill-up the whole afternoon with fun and laughter with my 3.6 years old son.
First, like many young children, my son can recite A-Z only from beginning to end. When you ask him what is the letter after K, it can take him some time to find out, or with no motivation to do so at all. So I decided to create some imprints of both capital and small letters to his little brain by playing with him a hide-and-seek or treasure hunting all these letters at home.
I would write a pair of letters on each piece of post-it, sticked it somewhere like ceiling in the corridor, window seal, my face, anywhere fun and unusual or unreachable. This already consumed us a long time with unstoppable laughters and aerobic exercises. Some of these locations do correspond to the letters, such as an O on an Orange. The later part of this game was to ask him to find in sequence each letter pairs and he would stick these post-its on the result wall very tidily forming a curved line. It was great fun. We should do more of this exercise.
Another thing he enjoys a lot is to command me drawing something in his mind and he would pick them up to stick on a notebook also quite tidily. Of course comparing to demanding schools/parents, this is no brainer. These days school tends to ask questions like "what's the difference between a clinic and hospital?" or "What would you buy if you have 10,000 dollars?" But we'll see how to make all these leaning a little more fun instead of looking at the pressure aspects.
There are times when an imaginary go-with-the-flow type of story telling made us laugh a lot and remember a lot. I would set the story scene, asked him what's next and then I would elaborate a longer and funnier version, the giggle was just unstoppable. The next day he would dictate me into drawing the whole thing out in simpler version.
Now all these little games are done with analog pen and paper, can digital stuffs totally replace the whole experience? Not in a decade at least. In every age of human existence, we always transcend the corporeal world by creating or tapping into a higher existence, separating the world into ideas (morphe) and tools (hyle), such as a perfect sphere in our mind versus a crafted sphere, in our limiting bodies. We always possess a lot more than what our body or the technology we created can offer, isn't that beautiful? Our on going challenge is to find out how this beautiful link works and make good use of it. And I have a feeling that we are close to experiencing this evolution in our lifetimes. Perhaps 2012?
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