Tape Man

Some of the children put  blue tape over their mouth. Usually I would have said something like, "Take the tape off your mouth. It's not for putting on your mouth." Instead I thought of Tape Man (with some pride, being from New Zealand). 

I thought of creativity. 

I thought of art. 

So we sat together for whole group time, some with tape on their mouth. I said, "I've got something to show you." 

When they first say him one of them said, "It's scary." I reassured them that it's not too scary and that he's being funny. So they started to laugh. 

Pretty soon there was no more tape on mouths (not that I minded if there was, it's just hard to laugh). 

Thank you Tape Man for reminding us that creativity begins with exploration in play.