What if we were children: Education Diaries of drystone-adapted activities for three- to sixteen-year-old children

Abstract

Three diaries record drystone activities devised for children from three to sixteen, in Cyprus and in Sardinia. The first follows nursery children collaging a terraced olive grove and handling stones in their own yard. The second is a school project in which teenagers built and painted bird boxes for a burnt landscape, and carried it on when the adults could not. The third is a morning in a Sardinian orchard, where children built stone basins around thirsty vines.