This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. These days witches, ghosts and skeletons are very present among us. We have celebrated Halloween night and All Saints' Day. In this month's laboratory we have selected some books around the night and its mysteries and we have taken advantage of the theme to play with shadows and encounter some ghosts.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. In the books we discover in this laboratory, the images are not what they seem at first glance. To reveal the secrets of their pages, we will need color filters, magic magnifying glasses, glasses and viewers.

We will first get to know some of these books and then we will learn how to build our magic viewers and create hidden drawings and secret messages.

Welcome to «Paper Games with Munari», a new LABORATORY OF LETTERS AND IMAGES. This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. Bruno Munari, jack-of-all-trades, artist, designer, inventor and pedagogue. Promoter of art didactics and play as a learning tool.

Munari with his sense of humor and play proposes to us travel sculptures, unusual books, paper games. There are so many proposals that Munari inspires that this laboratory is and will be a surprise.

Let's play at being designers! We create paper objects.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person.

This month we propose a special laboratory on the occasion of the IDM, International Museum Day, which is celebrated every year on May 18th.

This year's theme is "The Power of Museums". And among the action focuses proposed by the organization (ICOM) is the following:

THE POWER OF BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION: Through their collections and programs, museums weave a social fabric that is essential in building community. By defending democratic values and offering lifelong learning opportunities for all, they contribute to shaping an informed and committed civil society.

From the proposal of the laboratories of letters and images that we develop at MACA Alicante, we feel very proud to contribute to the community, facilitating access to culture, through Contemporary Art and of course, through BOOKS!

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. Today we want to celebrate with you all a banquet of books!

We become chefs to create exquisite dishes inspired by our favorite books. Our ingredients: paper, glue, scissors and lots of imagination.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person.

Today we talk about robots.

What is a robot? Do robots look like humans? And do we humans look like robots?

These are some questions we asked ourselves during this laboratory. To think about them, we searched our story collection for some inspiring books. We present to you some of our discoveries.

From childhood, we play at building houses with cushions, blankets, or cardboard boxes. Size and materials don't matter: a house can be any place where we feel safe, where we can imagine, create, and be.

In the Laboratory of Letters and Images: The House, we explored the profound meaning this symbol holds in childhood. Through stories, images, and play spaces, we discovered that a house is not just a roof or walls, but also an emotional place: a refuge, a starting point, a home.

This laboratory was an invitation to look at the house with fresh eyes, through art, play, and children's literature. The house in children's play is a symbol with multiple and profound meanings, ranging from security and refuge to autonomy and creative projection. It represents both a physical place and an emotional space, providing children with a vehicle to explore their inner world and the environment surrounding them.

Are you looking for a different and exciting way to enjoy reading? Books in a box are a unique proposal that goes beyond traditional pages. Presented on cards or loose sheets inside a box, these books invite you to interact, shuffle, and reinvent stories, opening the doors to imagination and creativity.

Today I bring you a selection of very peculiar books. These are books that are not bound in the usual way, but are presented inside a box, generally in the form of cards or independent sheets with which the reader can interact by ordering and shuffling the images to invent stories.

They are flexible books that invite us to creativity, to share stories aloud, to "hack" their initial reading proposal to invent other ways of reading.

In this new story laboratory we are going to see infinite books precisely to understand the concept of "infinity," through books and Art.

Infinity is a complex idea. Explaining it can be quite a challenge, but at the same time, infinity is an idea that holds a certain magic and mystery which makes trying to understand it irresistible to us.

To explore infinity we approach our story library, where we always find answers. After spending some time looking at and reading books we have learned some things.

Today we discover a type of game-book known as Mix and Match books. These books have their pages divided into different parts or sections, with images or texts that can be mixed and combined to create different visual or textual compositions.

These are books that awaken our creativity and imagination, playing with chance, with the absurd, and with the unexpected.