Today the children have had a fun packed morning taking part in activities all about ourselves and how we are all different in so many ways.
We all worked together on a large group activity drawing around ourselves, using leaves and flowers to decorate the large outlines of our bodies. As the children used the loose parts to decorate the silhouette we all spoke about the ways that we are different from each other, our eyes, hair, skin, how tall or short we are, likes and dislikes, and lots more. We had some lovely questions and language being used and we all enjoyed saying kind things to each other.
The children then got to explore with different skin toned play dough, and used our multi cultural and emotion stones, and loose parts to make their own people.
They explored mixing the play dough together to see what other colours they could make, and used sticks and leaves to make their person. The children made some lovely creations.
These activities are giving the children a Variety of cultural experiences using books, art, music, and diverse social interactions. This helps develop critical thinking skills, creativity, and a broader understanding of the world, and everyone around us. It also helps the children to learn that we are all the same, but different in so many ways.
We all read the lovely books “The same but different” and “We are all welcome” and the children all took part in a circle time all talking about how we are different from our friends.
