Arrive, see materials, and build something. With your hands and whatever you have around you. It really is a very primitive and exciting thing. When you start building, especially when accompanied, time flies and you get overly involved, because even if you are aware that it is something totally ephemeral, the act of building traps you and puts into perspective the fact that whatever you do will soon disappear.
It is also extremely instructive. It's incredible how a child is completely capable of understanding structural issues like the indeformability of a triangle when the theory is immediately reflected in reeds woven with palm leaves. And here it's easy to lament how impractical the training of designers is, the little contact we have with the primitive act of building, which sometimes carries over into our professional practice.
In short: BUILDING, whatever it is and with whatever you have, is a free contact with a large part of our nature.
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