"Picture books nourish children's hearts, and stories warm childhood". On February 2, 2024, the social work station of Guanyin Street, Pengshan District, Meishan City, Sichuan Province, together with Caishan Community and Zhiyue Xingyue Reading House, carried out the third session of the "Seedling Protection" picture book reading and growth group activity in the neighborhood center of Bolin County Community, with a total of 24 children participating.
In this activity, the reading instructor Teacher Liu led the children to read the audio picture book story "Mr. Broccoli's Barbershop", which tells the story of a "highly skilled" Mr. Broccoli who creates a unique "hairstyle" for each vegetable customer through his avant-garde design concept, exquisite techniques, and a variety of haircutting tools. In the handicraft process, the teacher took the children to DIY handicraft with light clay, and everyone followed the teacher's explanation and techniques, showing their skills with great interest, and shaping the clay through step-by-step kneading, kneading, rubbing, pasting and other actions. The whole event was full of joy, cooperation and imagination, everyone sat around and had fun, and the children designed wonderful paintings.
In this activity, Mr. Broccoli in the picture book story dared to break the routine, exercise innovative thinking, and have the courage to practice innovation; Through DIY handicrafts, children can use their imagination space, which not only exercises their hands-on ability, inspires them to use their imagination, but also brings together many children in the jurisdiction, providing them with a platform for communication and communication, which is conducive to enhancing their interpersonal relationships. (Wang Ruixue, Chen Jiacai).