For by such ridicule a prejudice might develop around the whole system. Birds in Flight, for example, might be a perfectly good dance exercise, provided the birds visualized were large, soaring birds with broad wing spans and calm beauty. Impressions stored up at a young age often linger on in the memory as caricatures. One means of using physical movement to impart important lessons along with body coordination is through painting and drawing in color. An excellent practice would be to get a class, in cooperation with the teacher, to paint story scenes together, each child designing a different part of the scene.
Colors are important to most children.
Children can also be made aware of the effect of different colors, and of different shades of color, on their feelings. They can be helped to see, for example, how they themselves may choose to use a preponderance of red when they feel angry or resentful, and blue when they feel peaceful and calm. The purer the color, the lighter and more expand ed, usually, its influence on the mind. At this point, the teacher might invent a story, perhaps of a child entering such a world and having wonderful adventures with beings and places of radiant light. A game the children might also play could be called, Cheering Up the Colors.