Today's Spiritual Exploration focus was "Impossible Possibilities!" We had a lot of creative fun together. What things seem impossible today, but are just waiting for people to problem solve? We learned about innovators like Lewis Latimer, a child of enslaved Africans who escaped to Massachusetts. He was a Unitarian and also helped invent the light bulb and the telephone.
The children had time to think of their own inventions or creations and made models out of some "pack rat" supplies (recyclables, etc.).
Some of the inventions: hot air ballon with beds in them, pulleys to refill the bird feeder from inside your house, foot bridges that are covered and heated, covered boats and boats with clear bottoms for viewing underwater life, and several invented their own stories about people--real and/or made up. Children did a great job keeping our covenant: they shared and encouraged one another, they listened to each others ideas, and were kind. Those are all important characteristics of innovators, who often work in teams!
Continue the conversation:
1. Ask each person at home, "What would YOU create if you could add some truly new idea or innovation to the world?" Make a drawing of your ideas together!
2. Watch this video to see how NATURE has inspired some amazing inventions. "Amazing Technologies Inspired by Nature" What in nature would you like to copy?
3. Many people of color have invented important and sometimes life-saving technologies, but their names are not as known as many white inventors. Check out the book What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors or this 2 min. video of "12 Black Inventors You Never Learned about."
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