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CREATIVE ACTIVITIES WITH CHILDREN Pastor Amos Owoseni CHAPTER NINE The Purpose of Creative Activities Creative activities is a method of teaching which can be used profitably to foster learning. These activities provide enjoyable ways for children to become more completely integrated personalities, opportunities to show loving concern and respect for other, and motivations to express their relationship to God and His Word in daily living. Values of Creative Activities: It makes learning more enjoyable, lasting and meaningful. It provides opportunity for self-expression and development of creativity. It instills pride in accomplishment and builds self-confidence. It contributes to the development of proper self-conception. It provides for participation in group situations and reaction to established group approval and behavior . It deepens a child’s sensitivity towards others and provides
opportunity for him to demonstrate in words and action his loving concern. Cyril’s File - Readers’ Reactions to Cyril’s Night of Terror in Nigeria I’m truly humbled — and truly honored — by both reader and listener reactions to my recent experience of a night of terror in Nigeria (Cyril’s File, August, 2002). I’m deeply touched by it all. The emails and phone calls keep coming. A Nigerian caller left me a voice message, so I called him back. He told me he had heard only a small part of my horror story on WBEZ’s Worldview and wanted to call to confirm the tale. He said he felt bad that he had not known about this sad experience with midnight armed robbers when he saw me at a wedding reception two days before the broadcast. He said I did a good job of masking my trauma at the wedding. I told him, as the emcee of the wedding reception, I wasn’t going to ruin a couple’s special day by wearing the effect on my face. Then he told me about his own nightmare with daytime armed robbers in the same country back in 1996. Wish we didn’t have such tragic stories in common! Both radio listeners and readers of this column have been showing uncommon solidarity in light of my recent life-threatening bus ride in Nigeria. Please oblige me to share some more of the emails: Dear Cyril, I didn’t hear your NPR interview with Jerome McDonnell,
but I was saddened to read about your traumatic experience. I’m very grateful
that you were protected through it all. God bless you! You provide us
with such a valuable service — the radio program and the online presence
— that we couldn’t afford to lose you. You meet a vital need among Africans
and friends of Africa. Thank you for all you do. At least we are now alerted
to the urgent need to address thuggery, poverty, and Nigerians’ need for
safety and protection. Again, God bless you! – (Margaretta Wa Gacheru). |
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