Myths about kalushari DG Svetulka Shumen Bulgaria

MYTHS ABOUT FAIRIES AND HEALERS – KALUSHARI Nadya Nikolova – senior teacher Radosveta Ivanova – senior teacher Kindergarten „Svetulka”, Shumen, Bulgaria It is created using the myth of the KALUSHARI (healers), which heal people, who have encountered fairies, using herbs. It is used in pre-school to educate 5-6 year old children.

POSSIBLE GOALS: To showcase the spectre of human relationships, strength and belief in good.

POSSIBLE AFTERMATH: Drama skills Social skills Possible skill gains Stimulation by getting into Teamwork Realizing the strength of character faith and love for the people. Dedication of the mother Development of the character Communication – listening The ability to understand in different roles and expression of a point of the emotions of others – view during disputes adults and children Orientation to the action Empathy Realization of the duality in people Nonverbal expression of Socialization Self-assessment of the feelings personality Subjectivity of time To do good without expecting anything in return Talent development Emotional recreation of the character Materials: Individual cardboards with pictures of different customs, myths and legends and cards with depicted props and symbols with them. Cardboards which are different for every child in order to avoid copying between them.

Presentment: This myth requires feeling the emotions of the characters. The myth is about a sick child enchanted by a fairy /enchanted by Evil/. The mother does anything in her power to save her child. She does not lose FAITH and turns to the mystical KALUSHARI which help without expecting anything in return for their help.

Game „GUESS WHAT I AM FEELING” Each child from the group expresses a chosen from him feeling or emotion with gestures. The rest of the children have to recreate the same feeling and emotional state.

The game is used to relax the group, to bond the players and form the skill of freely expressing different human emotions.

DISCUSSION: How did you feel when expressing different emotions? Which emotion would you like to see in the people around you? Which emotion and feeling do your parents have when you are sick?

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Game „Just like me” The children hear a given theme from the teacher and they have to repeat it with a musical instrument, a bell, clapping or foot stomping. For the more advanced children – they need to include all three elements /bells, clapping, feet stomping/ in the same theme.

Game „LOTTO – CUSTOMS, MYTHS, LEGENDS” The children are given cardboards with pictures of different customs, myths and legends and cards with depicted props and symbols with them. The goal of the game is to put each prop or symbol with the corresponding custom, myth or legend.

On each table, there are 4 children and they work with individual cardboards which are different for every child in order to avoid copying between them.

Game „TELL LIKE……”

The children have to tell the myth about “Kalushari” from a different point of view: -of the sick child -of the fairy -of the mother -of the neighbours -of the narrator -of the healer (kalushar) All children are sitting in a circle and listen the different interpretations while they look for the consistency of the myth and the emotional recreation.

Game „MAKE IT YOURSELF” The children make a figure for a desktop theatre from cardboard and cloth. They outline, color in, cut, glue and form a doll of a healer (kalushar).

4 children work individually on a table. They give certain features to the kalushari (healers) and their props. They performed small etudes with the dolls.

Game „HOP, HOP-TROP” The teacher plays music with a different rhythm and gives instructions to the children to recreate the emotion of the music with dance and movement. Each music corresponds to different characters from the myth Kalushari.

The children are in an open space in the room and are looking for changes in the music.

Using movement and dance they recreate actions of: -of the sick child -of the fairy -of the mother -of the neighbours -of the healer (kalushar) Game „HERBS” The children are given cardboards with pictures of herbs on them and also the real herbs. The goal is to place the real herbs on the correct picture and name it. The knowledge of the children about herbs is taken into account for this game. trailer https://youtu.be/LjaUTqpRd_c

20th December 2016 Shumen, BULGARIA This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.