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| SELF-CONCEPT ACTIVITIES
SUBMITTED BY BRENDA ALWARD MARCH 30, 2007 *Allow children to look at themselves in a full-length mirror. Discuss appearance and how they alike and/or different from other children. Help them see that no one is exactly alike. *Record each child’s voice during an activity. Children can listen to the voices and guess who belongs to each voice. *Write the children’s names on strips of paper. Compare the letters in each name. *Play “Guess Who?” Choose a child in the class and give three clues about that person. Children guess who the person is. *Encourage children to bring favorite items from home and share them with their classmates. *Make hand and foot prints and compare them to the others in the classroom. *Begin exploring differences by examining skin color, hair color, eye color and shape. Create graphs with eye color and hair color information. *Have children create life size body portraits from butcher paper. *Use a magnifying glass to examine their skin, fingernails, hair. *Create silhouettes of each child. Tape a piece of paper to the wall. Place an overhead projector or a lamp in front of the paper so the light shines on it. The child will sit sideways in front of the lamp. Trace the silhouette. The child can then cut from magazines things they like and glue them to their silhouette. *Friendship Quilt: Cut several squares of construction paper. Give one to each child and allow them to decorate the square. Glue the squares to a large sheet of colored paper and display in the classroom. *Talk about children’s growth. Ask them to share things they can do now, that they could not do when they were younger. What things did they use when they were younger that they do not use now. *Give children the opportunity to share family stories. *Allow children to create cards and pictures for family events. *Allow children to role play family life. *Let children use stamp pads to make their fingerprints on paper. |
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