Young imaginations take flight at Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival

Young imaginations take flight at Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival

Arabian Post -The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF) 2024 buzzed with a different kind of energy this year. At the Wooden Books workshop, creativity wasn’t just on display – it was being nurtured and transformed into tangible form. Here, children as young as eight were shedding their reader hats and becoming full-fledged authors, crafting their very own storybooks. The mastermind behind this imaginative workshop is Ghiwa Bouyounes, an interior […]

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The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF) 2024 buzzed with a different kind of energy this year. At the Wooden Books workshop, creativity wasn’t just on display – it was being nurtured and transformed into tangible form. Here, children as young as eight were shedding their reader hats and becoming full-fledged authors, crafting their very own storybooks.

The mastermind behind this imaginative workshop is Ghiwa Bouyounes, an interior designer with a passion for using her skills to ignite a love for learning in young minds. Bouyounes’ concept was simple yet ingenious:provide budding authors with a blank canvas – wooden squares in this case – and empower them to bring their stories to life. Armed with stencils of various animals and birds,