Vassiliki Riga

Motor Games

The children participate in rough mobility games that aim at the overall mobility of their bodies and in the enjoyment of pleasure through multi-faceted motor experiences (running, balance, jumping, relay, etc.).
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.
Vassiliki Riga & Thanassis Karalis

Circus Games

Through activities based on Circus games, children learn to work together, developing coordination, balance, manipulation, visual-kinetic, and quintessential skills.
Maria Kentrota

Colors and Imprints

In this workshop, children explore diversity and uniqueness through colors and fingerprints. The activities include Painting and Sculpture. Each child comes to understand that they have their own unique characteristics, such as gender, fingerprints, hair color, eye color, and skin tone.
Antonis Vaos & Maria Kentrota

The Land of Colors

An organized art workshop hosts the children and encourages them to work individually and collectively, meeting art through their creative action, experimentation and exploration.
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.
Georgia Parparoussi & Niki Bartzela

Musical Tales

The children watch fairy tales that are invested with live music, they sing, know and then experiment with the musical instruments and the sound objects of the fairy tale, actively participating.
Dimitris Politis

Storytelling

Children are acquainted with illustrated books through reading / narrative text and viewing their images, while participating in the activities (thematic - cross-curricular) carried out by the students / students.
Polyxeni Manoli

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).
Undergraduate students of D.E.S.E.C.E.

The Rights of the Child (UNICEF)

In this workshop, children are introduced to their rights as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Through experiential activities, they are encouraged to identify, comprehend, and articulate these rights, thereby empowering their voice and fostering respect for both themselves and others.
Graduate Student of D.E.S.E.C.E.

The Adventures of the Detectives

In this workshop, children take on the role of detectives, searching for solutions to puzzles. Through playful engagement with mathematical operations and problems, they collaboratively discover key clues that lead to solving the mystery...
Niki Sissamperi & Dimitris Koliopoulos

Renewable Energy Sources

In this workshop, our students create an entertainment and non-formal learning environment for children to approach the issue of renewable energy sources with pleasant and simple activities.
Angeliki Vellopoulou

PlayPracticum

Educational activities covering learning contents from various learning areas of the Kindergarten Curriculum,
created as part of the compulsory courses in the 3rd and 4th year of studies at the DECESE.
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.
Grigoris Mikronis

Folk Songs and Dances

Children learn and sing the traditional and modern lyrics and bends that are popular, popular for such ages but have also been established in the private and public Greek feast, both in the life cycle and in the time. In addition, clapping, the contact of children through motor and musical activities and the general activation of their senses, form an environment of society, cooperation, expression and entertainment.
Graduate Students of D.E.S.E.C.E.

Land Art

Children are in contact with nature, collect materials from the natural environment, activate their imagination and create works of art on the ground, and thus knowing another form of art.
Cleo Gougouli & Vassiliki Riga

Origami

In collaboration with students from the Department of History and Archaeology.

With a simple paper, children create forms / objects and dramatize them, improve fine mobility, visual coordination, have fun, while they perceive the value of a plain paper, combining old and new ideas for making homemade toys.

Nota Pantzou

The Little Archaeologists

In collaboration with students from the Department of History and Archaeology.

In this workshop, children will discover stories from the past in a creative and playful way, and become familiar with the world of archaeology through a simulated excavation game.

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.
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.
Marianna Kondyli

Lingo-wizzes

Children are engaged in a meaningful treasure hunt in which have to give/follow multimodal (spoken and written language, images) orders and suggestion as to find out a “hidden treasure”.

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.