Yellow Droppie for Kids Between 6 to 10 yrs Old

As I mentioned in my first post about Yellow Droppie, this book is a multipurpose and multi age one. The invitation to use this book at school or at home for kids between 6 to 10 yrs old is slightly different from the younger ones. These are just some ideas to use this book for those ages. I am sure your creativity will find more!

EMOTIONS: Reflect about Positive Mind Set:

Sometimes, when we are trying to stay positive all the time, it becomes a way to suppress intense or uncomfortable emotions like anger, frustration or sadness. So It is important to help the kids to embrace those, understand how they are expressed in their body and explore the origin cause

• What do they feel in their body when they are angry?

• What do they feel in their body when they are sad?

• What do they feel in their body when they are frustrated?

• What tools do they have when you don't feel positive?

• This is a great opportunity to introduce them to mindfulness

Once they have explore those intense emotions, we can focus on positive mind set, by asking questions like these:

• How can you draw a negative thought in colors?

• How can you translate a negative thought in a positive one?

• What positive words do you use regularly when you speak?

• What are the things you do that get you in a positive mindset afterwards?

• Which metaphor would you use to explain someone else what is a positive mind set?

THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAYING

• What are their favorite things they like to play with? Why?

• Is there anything they learn while playing? If so, what are those?

• Who are those friends or family members they like to play with? Why?

• How do they feel after playing?

• What emotions do they associate with playing?

• How would you explain to an adult, the importance of playing? How would they draw that explanation?

• What thing would they like to learn by playing?

Questions for the guardian or unicorn (either at home or at school)

• How can you add more playing in learning spaces either at home or school?

CURIOSITY AND LEARNING NEW THINGS

• What are those things they are interested to learn? How can they draw them?

• How do they feel when they are learning something they are interested in?

• How do they feel when they are learning something they are NOT interested in?

• How can they draw a metaphor about curiosity?

• How can they draw a metaphor about learning something new?

Questions for the guardian or unicorn (either at home or at school)

• How are you sparking kids curiosity in your spaces?

• Can you draw your intention when you want to teach something to kids?

• What can you learn from them about curiosity?

THE UNIVERSE AND KIDS

• How do you imagine other worlds? Can you draw them?

• Which talents might be available in those worlds? Can you draw them?

• How do you imagine the universe? Can you draw it?

• Which are the characteristics of the Moon? Can you draw it? How do you imagine life in the Moon?

• How would you draw Jupiter? How do you imagine life over there?

• How would you draw Urano? How do you imagine life over there?

• How would you draw Mercury? How do you imagine life over there?

• How would you draw Venus? How do you imagine life over there?

• How would you draw Neptune? How do you imagine life over there?

• How would you draw Saturn? How do you imagine life over there?

• How would you draw Mars? How do you imagine life over there?

• How would you draw Pluto? How do you imagine life over there?

HOW TO USE NUMBERS TO LEARN ABOUT THEMSELVES

This book invites the guardians and kids to explore a different way to see at numbers. This is an introduction to an ancient tool for self knowledge, numerology.

As we talked during Red Droppie's adventure, I like to bring these ancient tools, because they have good questions that still apply to us and can bring a different perspective to learn more about ourselves.

Numbers, like it happens with elements in astrology or colors, have good questions and ways to explore ourselves. Before going in deep with the meaning of the numbers and the questions they can bring, let's go easily with the some of the main aspects Pythagoras left...

1. The number of the day in your birth date describes the essence of your soul, the purest energy of it. It says something important about you.

2. The number of the month in your birth date describes your personality, a group of harmony ande disharmony expression of our personality in this lifetime. Something to take a look at.

3. If you sum up all the digits of your birth date and reduce it to one digit, it expresses a big objetive of this lifetime. If that number is 11, 22, 33, or 44, it might require an expanded interpretation (this aspect is not covered in this post).

Let's explore now, the essence of each numbers and what kids can learn about themselves by it

NUMBER 1

• Do you speaking in front of others?

• If you don't, can you draw the reasons?

• If you do, do you listen to others while they speak too?

• This number is associated with the sun, what are the characteristics of the sun, can you draw them?

NUMBER 2

• Do you prefer to work/collaborate in groups or alone?

• If you do enjoy working with others, how do you feel when you are alone?

• Can you draw what are your feelings when you are with others?

• Can you draw one emotion when you work by yourself? Whichever comes to your mind first

• What does it mean to be a good friend?

• How would you draw friendship?

NUMBER 3

• Do you enjoy drawing, dancing, painting, writing or any creative activity?

• Which one do you like the most? and Why?

• How would you draw enthusiasm if it would be a character of a comic or a story?

• This number is associated with a creative expression. Would you like to create a poetry, an story, a drawing or a comic?

NUMBER 4

• How do you feel when things are not in order?

• Is your routine to go to bed the same every day?

• How do you feel when you lost a toy or anything important for you?

• If you would build something, how would it look like?

• This number is associated with order, structure, build things. It is an opportunity to give kids elements to build something.

NUMBER 5

• How do you feel when you go for an adventure with your family and friends?

• Can you draw the best adventure you ever went?

• Would you like to share your adventure with the group?

• This number is associated with exploration, discovering thing through experiences, travel, looking for changes and new experiences.

NUMBER 6

• Do you like to made things with your hands?

• What do you enjoy the most when you are with your family?

• What do you enjoy the most when you are with your friends?

• Would you like to draw a metaphor about friendship?

• This number is associated with being part of something, a family, a group or a community.

NUMBER 7

• Do you like to spend time alone?

• How do you feel when you it seems you have failed on something?

• Do you like to listening to music? Which kind of music is your favorite one?

• How would you draw music? How would you draw sound?

• Do you enjoy mindfulness? How would you draw a metaphor about mindfulness?

• This number is associated to introspection, being sensible to energy, pausing, equilibrium and discipline.

NUMBER 8

• What are the things you do very well?

• Can you draw your talents?

• What is that thing you are still practicing to get better at? How would you draw them?

• How do your talent complement your friend's ones?

• How would you draw your friend's talents?

• This number is associated to our self-confidence, identifying our talents and developing them. It is about building self-security.

NUMBER 9

• How does empathy is being expressed through you? How would you draw it?

• How does plants and animals are connected? How would you draw that connection?

• How does human can take care of the planet? Can you draw your ideas about it?

• How does nature express love to humans?

• This number is associated to empathy, humanity and feeling connected with everything in this planet.

How to apply it at home or school?

I would start with exploring the numbers without, all those questions apply to everyone not matter if your essence, is one number or the other. Then, if they get engaged with the topic, I would ask them to draw the numbers and their meaning, as the book does. They can create their own illustrations about the book.

Finally, I would help them explore the mission and other calculations and explore if it resonates with them in some point.

Astrology and numerology can be use to ask ourselves good questions and see us in a different perspective, but it shouldn't be used to tag us under an specific archetype, which could limit our exploratory human experience.

I hope Yellow Droppie brought multiple and creative ways to connect numbers and learn a little bit about themselves.

Reminder: These are just some aspects to travel with this book, in this eternal journey through the colors.

Hoping after reading this blog, it sparks your curiosity to connect with your own inner child and read this next one, specially created for her/him.

Stay colorful!

Laura