One of my favorite activities to do with children involves encouraging them to recreate and revisit something they've created in another/different form (e.g. making something out of clay that they've drawn, or painting a picture of a recently built block structure). As the Reggio Emilia approach teaches us, children express themselves in "the hundred languages".
Below is an example of taking a character from a book and revisiting her in a new "language". The 4 year old child who sewed this character had recently cut her own hair. Perhaps she identified with the sad face going along with the crazy hair, or maybe she just really enjoys this part of the book. When I invited her to do some sewing with me up in our sewing loft, she grabbed this book, flipped right to this page and said, "I want to sew that one!" I observed (and verbalized back to her) that she chose fabrics that closely resembled the colors chosen by the illustrator of the book. She also made the decision to stuff her sewing so that it would be "big and fluffy" like in the picture.
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