The thinking aim- to create new characteristics for the main characters in a fairy tales. The morphological method.

Children-6 kids of 5-6 years old.

Result- The kids are suggested to name some mane heroes of fairy tails and to create a new characteristics.   In the beginning of the game it was difficult for the kids to forget all the stereotypic ideas of main characters in a fairy tales. But later they catch the idea and it was more and more interesting to play.

The teacher is writing the answers in a table (1) and later picking up one attribute from each row and creating a short story.

 

Table 1.

 

Age
Dressing style
Traveling
Character
Living place

So we created... A New Characteristic for a King

 

Age	90 years	3 years	12 years	Baby	1 year
Dressing style	With a crown, very nice	With jeans	No clothes (like in a fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes”	Snow clothes (like a Snow Queen)	Red
Traveling	Jeep	BMW	Raising car	Train	Plane
Character	Very polite	Angry	Bad behavior	The one who likes to laugh a lot	Nimble
Living place	A garage	A castle	A church	A school	A big house

 

 

The 1st try

It was a baby king; he likes to wear nice clothes, especially crowns. He was traveling by train. He was very funny and laughed a lot. His home was school.

2^nd try

It was a 3 year old king. He was wearing red cloths and was traveling on a racing car. He was very active, so he lived in a big house and was running all along.

3^rd try

It was a king. He was 90 years old and liked to wear snow clothes. He was going on BMW. The king was very polite and lived in a nice castle.

And Dragon.

 

A New Characteristic for a Dragon

Age	93 years	4 years	50 million	39 years	100 years	20 years
Activity	To blow fair	Play	To go to the swimming pool	Eat fruits	Fly	Like to drink juice
Wants to travel to…	Paris	‘’Ozas”	Shop	Africa	Spain	Maldives
Looks like…	Pink and blows a pink flame	Bad and angry	Colorful like rainbow	Red	Green like a grass	Blue and round like apple
Lives in…	Kindergarten	Italy	Pit	Turkey	In volcano	Park

 

1^ststory

Once it was a dragon, he was 93 years old and like to blow flames a lot. He was dreaming to travel to Spain. But for the reason, that he was very angry, he just lived in Italy quietly.

2^nd story

Once were lived a dragon. He was 50 million years old. The favorite activity for a dragon was to go to the swimming pool.Because of his pink color and flames- shopping center “Ozas”, but he was living in a Kindergarten, so he could not travel.

3^rd story

Long a go a 4 year old child dragon was thinking to drink more juice. Not just to drink, but to travel to Maldives and to get the best juice in the world. But he was so blue and round like an apple, that he just lived in a park for having fun with other dragons.