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Humour enriches learning environments by fostering joy, belonging, and a positive atmosphere, and it functions as a motivational tool in experiential and arts-based education. Educational design research with 36 first-grade pupils over a 10-day intervention investigates humorous toy characteristics and the making process. 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Humour enhances learning environments by fostering joy, belonging anda positive atmosphere, acting as a motivational tool in experiential and arts-based learning. The study aims to answer the following questions: (1) What are the humorous characteristics of the soft toys created by the pupils? (2) How does the crafting of humorous soft toys proceed? Employing an educational design research methodology, the project involved 36 first-grade pupils from an urban Finnish school over a 10-day intervention. The study examines how humour, when integrated into a holistic craft process, supports the making and designing of soft toys. In the study, the pupils created humorous soft toys, often anthropomorphised with exaggerated or contradictory traits. Challenges emerged in translating 2D drawings into 3D soft toys, particularly with sewing and fabric painting. Nevertheless, the final products were unique and evoked positive emotions. The findings suggest that incorporating familiar elements, such as humour and soft toys, into the holistic craft process in early years education can enhance motivation and learning outcomes, thus supporting the integration of humour into educational contexts to foster creativity and emotional expression.  \nKeywords  \nsoft toy, holistic craft process, humour  \nIntroduction  \nWhen craft design starts from personal life experiences, sensations and narratives, it transitions from a traditional technique and product-centred craft towards a more holistic craft process, where design and making progress alongside skill and expression (Laamanen & SeitamaaHakkarainen, 2009) . The Finnish National Curriculum for Basic Education (FBNE, 2014) suggests that in first and second grade (6–9 years old pupils), familiarizing with the holistic craft processes should be supported through child-specific expressions and activities, e.g., imagination, stories, drama, play, games and the natural and built environments. However, the national curriculum for education (FNBE, 2014) does not mention humour, even though humour has many positive effects on learning in the early years and is vital to children’s life experiences (Airenti, 2016) .  \nIn general, humour brings playfulness and joy to learning, develops feelings of belonging and generates a positive atmosphere (Anttila, 2008) . According to Weisi and Mohammadi (2023), most teachers strive to develop a cheerful and friendly atmosphere in their classrooms through humour and feel that humour supports involvement in learning by relaxing and comforting  \nlearners. Even though humour is often seen mainly as a promoter of a positive learning atmosphere and overall well-being, it could have a more dominant role in learning as an object for learning (Aerila et al., 2017) or as motivation for experiential and arts-based learning projects (Aerila et al., 2023a, 2023b) like holistic craft. Previous studies (Aerila et al., 2023a, 2023b; Leung & Yeung, 2022; Rönkkö & Aerila, 2018) suggest that incorporating humour into experiential and arts-based processes often pupils to create more detailed artefacts, feel more enthusiastic about sharing their work with peers develop a stronger, more positive sense of attachment to their creations.  \nIn the context of education, there may be several reasons for the low implementation of humour, both in Finland and internationally, but many of them may be related to teachers’ lack of awareness of the pedagogical or welfare implications of humour and to teachers’ prejudice against pupils’ humour (Aerila et al., 2023a) . In many cases, pupils’ humour is viewed from teachers’ perceptions of humou","cbCaio21W8UpZmjz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaio21W8UpZmjz","pdf",545182,16,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Humour as playfulness and positive atmosphere\n## Humour as a learning object and motivation\n## Barriers to humour implementation in education\n## Study focus: humorous soft toys and craft process","[{\"question\":\"What age group and learning setting does the study focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The study focuses on 7–8-year-old pupils designing personalised soft toys within early years education, using a holistic craft process.\"},{\"question\":\"How does humour support learning in the craft process according to the study?\",\"answer\":\"Humour fosters joy, belonging, and a positive atmosphere, and it acts as a motivational tool during experiential and arts-based learning, supporting motivation and learning outcomes.\"},{\"question\":\"What challenges did pupils face while creating the soft toys?\",\"answer\":\"The study reports challenges translating 2D drawings into 3D soft toys, especially in sewing and fabric painting.\"}]","Crafting Humorous Soft Toys - Incorporating Humour into a Holistic Craft Process in Early Years Education | PDF",1792090739]