On the Island of Thau, the Mexican lottery develops children’s imagination

Une loterie mexicaine qui a transporté les enfants vers l’imaginaire et des univers nouveaux. Midi Libre – Patrice Espinasse

Durant toute la semaine, à la médiathèque de l’Île de Thau, une dizaine d’enfants ont développé un projet pédagogique autour de la très ludique loterie mexicaine.

It's called the Mexican Lottery. It looks like our lotto but is played with images that we draw, and not with numbers.

This South American version was the subject of educational work around words and images this week, at the Malraux media library, in the Île de Thau. Accompanied and guided by the Sète company Bleu Albinos, around ten children participated every day in workshops around this game. "The equivalent of our lotto is poetic by the images that are around, explains Juliette Marre, actress and director. It’is an excellent pretext for develop children's imagination, to improvise."

Renamed "fabulous lottery", the structuring activity appealed to the children, who became cartographers, who really got into the game to the point of carrying out their own research on plants in the shelves of the media library and to ensure their animation at the time of restitution this Friday afternoon, at the media library.