LEARNING THROUGH LAUGHTER: ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY AND CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH FUN CLASSROOM PROJECTS
Abstract
This article explores how creativity and humor can enhance students’ engagement and critical thinking through project-based learning. It describes two classroom projects conducted with Grade 5 and Grade 7 students at a Presidential school, both designed to encourage collaboration, imagination, and authentic language use. The Grade 5 project, “The Things My Parents Told Me”, focused on recalling and illustrating funny or memorable phrases parents often say, while the Grade 7 project, “Crazy Calls”, invited students to invent humorous emergency calls inspired by real-life examples from the Cambridge THINK 3 course book. Both projects successfully fostered the 4Cs—creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration—while promoting joyful learning and meaningful reflection. The findings suggest that laughter and creativity can play a vital role in motivating students and strengthening classroom relationships.
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project-based learning, creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, humor in education, joyful learning, student engagement, language development, visual learning, reflection, 21st-century skills, classroom projects, motivation.How to Cite
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