In the Noon Fairy Tales, children will travel to the magical, symbolic worlds of folk tales through storytelling, waking dreaming and visual expression.

To kick off the year, the group will hear tales of animal heroes facing the loss of family light, fears in new beginnings, fearsome and terrible enemies, and with the help of friends, magical helpers, they manage to find what they seek! Then, the course of their week will give us the next fairy tale daisy. From our journeys they will take back with them what they need each time, either in the form of a construction-artwork or in an intangible symbolic form.

Through the magical, symbolic world of folk tales, the children take a safe distance and converse with their own concerns.

Each child lives in the moment, experiences his/her emotions intensely, each moment is his/her whole world. In each day, in each transition to the next developmental stage, he experiences intense emotions of fear, sadness, loneliness, loss, surprise, indecision, anxiety, frustration, jealousy, anger, joy and contentment.

Every fairy tale sets a secure framework with a beginning, middle and end, with good and bad people readily identifiable. In the typical story progression, the hero leaves home and begins his quest, along the way meeting friends helpers, facing enemies, discovering what he needs and celebrating for it!

The hero's journey corresponds to an inner journey for the child in the unprecedented discoveries, the agonies, the range, the intensity and the successive changes of emotions he experiences in each day.

As he imagines the images he hears he pictures different, symbolic paths on his inner journeys. He discovers many different ways of dealing with difficulties he encounters. Each time he succeeds, each time he celebrates, each time he discovers a whole new world all his own.

He finds creative ways and expresses what he feels, he knows his inner sources of creativity and learns to trust himself.