This article will be useful to parents who like to play with their children, as well as those who are professionally involved in the development of children's speech and creative imagination. Using the wonderful ideas of Gianni Rodari, you can play a "fantastic analysis" of a character with children 10-12 years old who know the fairy-tale material well enough. Firstly, a fairy-tale hero can become a character in fantastic stories invented by young writers on their own. Secondly, the game will familiarize them with analytical activities. Thirdly, children will have the opportunity to have fun.
For analysis, a well-known fairy-tale hero Santa Claus can be chosen by everyone, if, of course, your young interlocutors already quite realistically imagine who brings them New Year's gifts.
According to Soviet tradition, every New Year's Eve , Santa Claus comes to the house where there are children and presents gifts to obedient children. Santa Claus and the fairy-tale flying hero Witch Befana, for example, put pieces of coal in stockings of naughty, bad children. The Russian "giver" gives naughty icicles to naughty. If the children are sleeping, Santa Claus leaves gifts under the Christmas tree.
It turns out that the fairy-tale hero Santa Claus is impossible without three required components:
-staff;
- a bag where gifts lie;
Granddaughter Snow Maiden.
Each of these factors can be a source of inspiration. Using the following methodology, you can put into practice those creative opportunities that are embedded in these fabulous elements.
Staff
Most often, Santa Claus needs a staff as a representative of the natural winter element in order to cover it with frost and freeze it. But I wonder how you can still use the staff? As an example, let's try to offer a couple of options.
1. Having completed the round of houses on New Year's Eve, having handed out all the presents, Santa Claus sits in a sleigh drawn by three horses and goes on vacation to another hemisphere where it is summer. Horses graze, eat green grass, and Grandfather in a bright shirt, shorts and sunglasses with a staff freezes fruit juice, making ice out of it to the delight of local children.
2. Santa Claus uses a staff in his tower instead of a refrigerator. The fairy-tale hero freezes real products, for example, dumplings and dumplings. And what does his tower look like? And what does he do the rest of the year? Does he have any friends? Is he a senior citizen? Does he have a summer house? What does he like to drink in the morning: coffee, milk or tea? Does he have a computer and the Internet? If so, in which social networks did he have a page?
A bag where gifts lie
Bags of all Santa Clauses lie in a giant storage, from where they pick them up on New Year's Eve. In this case, they are easy to replace, spoil or confuse.
1. Santa Claus accidentally touched with his staff the bags of all Santa Clauses and froze all the gifts . Frozen toys have turned into icicles that are only suitable for naughty children. Heroes from fairy tales came to the rescue, for example, Snake Gorynych, old man Hottabych and other wizards. The serpent Gorynych almost burned them, and Hottabych got a wet beard and ceased to function, etc.
2. Santas mixed up the bags and those that were intended for the children of Moscow were taken to Murmansk, and children of Sevastopol were given gifts from children from St. Petersburg, etc. Santas were preparing for complaints, to the fact that the guys would stop believing in them. They sent their assistants to find out if everyone is happy? It turned out that the children received their gifts and long ago fell asleep happy, because they love the same toys, phones and tablets.
Granddaughter Snow Maiden
Granddaughter Snegurochka - the main assistant to Santa Claus. He completely trusts her. Evil heroes can take advantage of this by dressing up in her costume or enchanting a girl.
1. The granddaughter of the Snow Maiden leads the page of Santa Claus on the Internet, and once dark forces launched a feisty virus into the network, infecting his magical computer. Oh! What started here! Continuation of the children can come up with for themselves.
2. The granddaughter of the Snow Maiden succumbed to the entreaties of her friend, drank a magic drink and fell asleep in a dead sleep. Santa Claus needs to hit the road, but the bags are empty, not filled with gifts. To wake the granddaughter, Grandfather had to invite a thousand regimental orchestras. But it did not help. Then he invited Harry Potter. What happened next will be interesting for children to come up with for themselves.
Playing a “fantastic analysis” can help develop children's imagination and speech. In order to come up with a story, one good word is enough, or three fabulous elements that can open a creative channel and make the child’s imagination work.