TIBF pavilion offers programs to promote children’s creativity

1391/02/17-08:30

A special section in the 25th edition of Tehran International Book Fair offers different activities and programs aimed at engendering and enhancing children’s creativity, the TIBF press office reported Friday.

The section is sponsored by Tehran Municipality and hosts visitors under a marquee called ‘Farhangsara-ye Ketab’ comprising six various pavilions where children find opportunities to engage in storytelling activities designed to help enhance inner talent in children aged 6 to 12. Parents are invited to engage in the cultural activities to encourage their children.

In a storytelling pavilion, called ‘my own book,’ a fiction book is on offer in which slots have taken the place of the main character everywhere through the story and the applicant children are demanded to write their own names in the slots and then engage in the content. The story aims to promote the aptitude of book reading in an indirect, artistic method.

In another pavilion called ‘artist buddy’ children are asked to draw paintings about book reading under supervision of trainers. Top works will be printed on banners to be installed later on the walls of the pavilion.

In yet another pavilion, called ‘the friend’s fiction,’ children are asked to team up with their parents to arrange nine pieces of images that once tidied up help them to get familiar with different stages of book production, from where paper sheets are produced until books are put on stalls in bookshops or libraries.

One more pavilion deserves introduction; called ‘fictions of citizenship,’ visiting parents may find an opportunity in the pavilion to assess their children’s social intelligence in citizenship-related themes through special affordable games.