Imagination/Creativity

• What do you wonder about? Do You Wonder? explores all kinds of intriguing questions. Encourage your child to keep a journal of questions and answers and draw pictures to go with each entry. Decorate the outside of the journal with pictures of Spinoza and the Woodland Friends.
• Asking questions is good! By encouraging curiosity, children learn research skills and how and where to get their questions answered. You Are All You Need To Be tells the story of how Spinoza painted his rainbow. What questions did Spinoza ask himself as he solved this problem? Pick a household chore or homework assignment and help your child create a list of questions to ask about the task.
• Your child can paint rainbows too! Listen to You Are All You Need To Be and help your child paint his/her own rainbow on a large piece of newsprint.
• Have fun and involve family and friends as you draw pictures of the different characters in the audio tapes or make paper bag puppets or paper plate masks for each character and act out the tapes for family and friends. Small puppets can also be made of paper figures glued to Popsicle sticks.
• Play the beginning of a story from one of Spinoza’s tapes but don’t play the ending and take turns making up an ending or adding on what Spinoza did next. For example, when Spinoza’s house is cut down to make way for the new road in New Beginnings Spinoza tells Serena he doesn’t know what he is going to do. Finish Spinoza’s story and help him solve his problems.
• Children can create their own stories using Spinoza characters. If you have more than one child, have one child start a story one night and then the next night have the next child add on where the first story left off.