- Hand in a sheet of white paper to each participant
- Ask them to carefully look at it
- Ask them to close their eyes while holding the sheet of paper
Narrator:
Imagine that this sheet of paper represents nature, with all its beauty, perfection. Imagine a forest full of trees. Imagine that in this forest there are beautiful flowers and ground vegetation with leaves of different shapes and different tons of green, that the vegetation exhales a variety of fragrances and reveals beautiful and colorful fruits desired by a series of birds of exotic colors singing out beautifully.
In this forest, there is also a river of clear and flowing water. Due to its transparency, we can see a number of fish as if playing with life, swimming continuously forming tenuous circles that disappear on the surface.
- Ask the participants to raise the sheet of paper high above their heads and then shake the sheet of paper continuously (we are going to hear a particular sound made by the paper)
Narrator:
Nature when it is alive produces its sounds, its movements, and its perfume
- Ask the participants to crumple the sheet of paper up, in such a way so that it becomes a small ball.
Narrator:
When we harm nature, when we pollute it, when we take its animals away from it, taking their skins, their feathers, when we take trees, plants, and flowers away, when we pollute rivers and exploit the environment in an unsustainable way, we leave marks…
- Ask the participants to try to totally unfold the sheet of paper
Narrator:
These marks do not simply go away…
- Ask the participants to raise the sheet of paper high above their heads (due to the physical change, there will be no sound when it is shaken)
Narrator:
And even more, Nature sounds, Nature beauty, Nature enchantment, disappear. Now, Nature no longer vibrates….
We can not allow our natural environment to be like this…
Working together along with our children, we can certainly make a better world to all living beings.
Angelo Andreetto – Brazil
professor.angelo@uol.com.br