Our Life as Animators

Authors: Sara, Nicole e Rachele

In  the summer, when school ends we work as animators. Animators organize various recreational and sporting activities for the children of the group who are 4-12 years old. We do this because we love to see children smile and build a rapport with them. We spend two weeks with them from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. In the morning we get in a circle and give them some rules for the day. Then they have breakfast and we organize what we will do later. Afterwords there are volleyball and football matches. At 1:00 pm we have lunch, which is a time of day that we don’t like because the children are very excited and it is difficult for us to keep them calm. In the afternoon, there is a laboratory where they can paint, play table games and play with the other children. At 4:00 pm children can swim in the pool for a limited time and we have a lot of fun. While the children get dressed we prepare some snacks, both sweet and savoury, in the garden with various beverages. At 5:00 children are collected by their parents.