Since April, Caixaforum has been organizing a special workshop where children, in a semi-supervised environment, learn to make all types of skyscrapers on a small scale. This will be the last weekend that you can enjoy the activity. The event will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 2pm. It is free and does not require reservations.
The youngest members of the house – from 5 years old – find themselves in a safe space where the workshop’s creators mix the dynamics of basic learning in urban planning, with play and fun. Children will learn to create iconic towers, but above all, they will develop their own creations.
The ultimate goal is healthy leisure and entertainment for the participants, but at the same time it helps to stimulate their creativity and, why not? Start discovering a future career in architecture or engineering.
The difference between building with Legos – or similar – in the comfort of your home, or going to this workshop, lies in the guide, in the right direction of the imagination towards the goal of creating a piece, a skyscraper in this case.
According to the official website of Caixaforum, what you get by going to enjoy “Skyscrapers: Great Challenges” is the possibility of: “discovering the basics of disciplines related to construction such as architecture, design, engineering or urban planning. All this, under games and original pedagogies without it resembling a master class.
However, for those looking for other types of educational and artistic activities to do with the whole family, as always, Madrid offers other options. One of them is the “Junior Cinematheque” of the legendary Ciné Doré. This Saturday at 6 pm will be screened ‘Ils donne le coup’, a fun and friendly classic with Tom Hanks and Madonna, where you will learn, between jokes, how the American imposed her rightful place in Baseball when she was not allowed to. taken into account.
Another interesting event will take place at Casa Encendida. On Saturday, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the session ‘In the Forest 2024’ will take place, a slow and calm reading of children’s literature about the forest, as a place and an essential figure to awaken curiosity in books, because according to page, “that is where all the stories are born, where all the voices of the world live”. In addition to the reading, there will be a time when albums will be created. It is directed by Virginia de la Rosa, master in children’s literature.
