ACTIVITY 1 - SAME AND DIFFERENT
Same and different exercise
Aim: To identify ways in which people are alike and different
Materials needed: Paper, old magazines, scissors and glue
Instructions:
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Have children make a collection of 6 to 8 photographs of different kinds of people by cutting pictures from old magazines.
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Ask the children to look at their pictures and to answer the following questions:
How is someone who is old?
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Young?
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Playing?
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Working?
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Looking happy?
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Looking sad?
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Looking friendly?
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Looking scared?
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Looking angry?
Discuss the following:
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Were the people in your pictures all alike? Were they different in some ways?
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Is it possible to be like other people in some ways and different in other ways? For example, can twins look alike but have
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Are you like someone you know in some way? How?
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Are you different from someone you know in some way? How?
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Is it wrong to be different from someone else?
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How does being alike in some ways make people happy?
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How does being different in some ways make people happy?
different feelings inside them?
We have a break halfway through the session, during which the children can go to the bathroom.
ACTIVITY 2 - STRENGTHS EXERCISE
Strengths exercise
Aims: To identify own strengths and coping skills
Time: 20 minutes
Materials needed: Old magazines, scissors and glue
Instructions:
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Hand out old magazines, scissors and glue to every child.
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Discuss what 'strength' is and that every person has certain strengths, for example, some run fast, some read well, some can
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Ask the children to search in the magazines for their own positive aspects and strengths and to cut these pictures out with
tell good jokes, some are good in helping other people, etc.
their scissors. Then they have to paste these pictures onto their body map.
-Let the child be creative and decorate or write on the map as she or he pleases.
-Pictures/words out of magazines and also other materials can be used to communicate the story of the child.
-Let the child paint or paste other things on the body map that means something to the child or his or her family.
Discuss the strengths chosen by each child and indicate the positive aspects of each.
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