Vassiliki Riga

Traditional Games

We learn / remind children of traditional traditional games that can play in the yard of the school with their friends. Children are familiar with the idea of "belonging" to a whole, obeying rules, collaborating and entertaining.
Georgia Parparoussi & Maria Kentrota

The Land of Colors and Music

This is a meeting of visual arts with music. In this workshop, speech, movement, sets, puppets, sounds, music, and song are combined to create an original puppet theater performance, offering children a complete artistic experience. At the end of the performance, the children are given a backstage tour, where they learn how the sets and puppets are made and get to experiment with musical instruments.
Polyxeni Manoli & Marianna Kondyli

Lingo-wizzes

In the workshop, children participate in a series of language-based, interactive games and activities that enhance their language development, imagination, and creativity. With the support of our students, the children give and follow instructions in oral, written, or multimodal form in order to solve language puzzles while having fun.
Eugenia Arvanitis

Cultural Education

This Lab aims at collaborative and inclusive intercultural learning through mediation, active action, conflict resolution and intercultural dialogue. Children through activities develop multiple views of everyday life that relate to diversity and the cultural other and interact with external interlocutors (e.g. intercultural mediators, members of ethnic communities, students / professors from overseas).
Vasiliki Fotopoulou

The Bus

In this workshop, children participate in activities through which they learn how to behave responsibly, respectfully, and safely as passengers on public transportation — for themselves, their fellow passengers, and their pets.
Amalia Ifanti

Health and Well-Being in Kindergarten

At our workshop, children engage in group games and hands-on activities that help them explore the concepts of health and well-being. Through these fun and meaningful experiences, they build essential life skills such as teamwork, empathy, and responsibility. A key feature of the workshop is the Leadership Clock—an interactive tool that encourages every child to take initiative, express themselves, and actively contribute to the group. This approach fosters personal growth and helps each child discover and strengthen their leadership potential, all within a supportive environment of mutual respect and social awareness.
Vassiliki Riga

Puppet Theater

Children build and play with dolls of various materials, express themselves freely in a variety of ways, set up and watch performances while living in the real and imaginary world.
Vassilis Komis

Robotic Explorations

Children are encouraged to participate in problem solving activities with educational robotics, in order to familiarise with basic computational thinking skills and educational robotics concepts.
Konstantinos Zacharos

Mathematics Explorers

In the mathematics workshop, children through play, exploration and experimentation acquire mathematical concepts.
Stathis Balias

Participate and Decide

Children learn to say their opinions about simple issues of their daily routine, discuss with each other what is the most appropriate about a subject, and decide through democratic procedures (eg voting or with their hands) in order to learn to communicate and solve problems with discussion, with consensus and without violence.
Undergraduate students of D.E.S.E.C.E.

Little Chefs

Students of DESECE transform themselves to chefs and along with the young chefs (children) discover the art of cooking, using their sense of vision, taste and smell, their imagination and skills.
Maria Fragi

In Aesop's Land

In collaboration with students from the Department of Theatre Studies.
Together with the students of the Department of Theatrical Studies of the University of Patras, we will enter a remarkable land—humorous, full of animals and wisdom. We will play alongside them and sing of their adventures. This zoomorphic world serves as our mirror, and a great teacher once envisioned life by conveying its truths through amusing fables.

The Children’s Festival functions as an informal learning environment for the children that take part in the workshops.

The educators who accompanying their students, they have the opportunity to watch and to be inspired by innovative activities in a variety of disciplines and to expand them in their classroom.