Making themselves

§  Respecting self

§  Respecting others

What you need:

§  Empty toilet paper tubes or small juice boxes

§  Photos of each child

§  Glue

§  Yarn

§  Fabric

§  Crayons

§  paints

§  . .

Activity: 

            Have each child make a picture of themselves.  Allow the children to talk during the activity so they can see what others are saying at the same time.

Extensions:

§  The children can use their picture  people during circle time to act out situations that have occurred in the program.

§  The children can use their picture  people to work out problems by using the pictures to say what they might have trouble saying directly.

§  The children can make picture of their family members, or use old magazine pictures to make blocks of a variety of people as they learn about them.

§  Make personalized puzzles by gluing pictures of the children to cardboard and then cutting them into puzzle shapes.

§  Read the following book to your children:

Just Because I Am: A Child's Book of Affirmationby L.M. Payne, (Free Spirit Publishing, 1994)