Yesterday we had the Aladdin workshops and it was a fantastic experience.

It was a big Project with whole the class so each group was focus in a scene or topic of the Aladdin´s film. We used the Disney versión because was created for children so taking into account this point, my group decided to work about the cave of wonders where Aladdin find the magic carpet and the magic lamp.

For this Project, we needed a classroom because we will should use the White board for develop our activities so wethough that it was a great idea to decorate the classroom as a cave because thinking as a children we though it will be a great idea for motivate them.

The first thing to create was the fantastic and huge tiger that is the cave´s door. For this, we use continuous paper and make the tiger in the classroom´s door.

Also we put cellophane as curtains.

As it was a rainy day, we share the classroom with other group but this was not a problema for us. Our solution was divide the class in two parts. For decórate the class as a cave, we stacked the tables and chairs in a pile making a wall between the two parts. In this wall, we put Brown continuous paper as the cave´s walls and we used flashlightes covered with red cellophane simulating torches aroung the walls.

On the floor, we put carpets and pillows for the children and in the middle we put a fake fire and gold coins made up of evafoam as a treasure. This point it was not correct because children touch everytime the things so the following children´s group, we changed this point.

Other things to decarate were chocolate coins, fake jewels, arabic objects…..and also we did gold medals for each children as a present for participate in our workshop.

All of these things and our thrill and eagerness and the children of course, did this workshop a fantastic experience.

With this post, I want to encourage the teacher to do things like this because it is not difficult to do and the result is mazing. Children will express their gratitude for this because it is too motivated for them and I am sure you will have a very funny time with them.