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| Activity: Pictures of Peace |
| Holidays are recognized year round, but there are some we forget. This includes Peace Day, September 21. Celebrate this day with the group, or take any day to celebrate peace! With this activity, you will introduce the concept of peace to children and reinforce the concept with a puppet play. Finally, the children will create a "picture definition" of what peace is. This is one step that will help young ones think about how to resolve conflicts. |
| Goal: Demonstrate Give-and-Take Interactions and is Able to Negotiate Conflicts. |
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Let's Get Started:
1. Read aloud the dictionary definition of peace.
2. Ask the group what they think it means, especially in the context of their everyday situations with family and friends. Sharing toys? Taking turns? Have these instances ever given way to conflict? What did they do to 'make peace'?
3. Take two puppets and be the puppeteer as the two puppets have a 'fight'.
4. Ask them to describe what happened in the puppet play.
5. Ask for two volunteers from the group to be the 'puppeteers', and ask them to show what peace means using the two puppets for part 2 of the play. "What would they say to each other to make peace?" "What could they do?" "What needs to happen for them to be happy again?"
6. After the puppet show, ask the children to think about the definition of peace you read aloud earlier, along with what they learned in puppet show. Finally, ask them to create a picture definition of peace—ask them, "How would peace look like if you could draw it?"
7. Create a 'peace place' in one part of the center. Encourage children to visit that area for a period of five minutes when they feel angry. Tell them this is a safe place to think about their anger and how they might turn their frowns upside down. Supply the peace place with a timer and the collection of 'pictures of peace' created by the group. Visitors of the peace place can look through these pictures while they reflect. |
| If using POCET, this Activity correlates to Developmental Guideline: SE7 Demonstrates Give-and-Take interactions and is Able to Negotiate Conflict. |
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 | Dictionary | | 2 puppets or stuffed animals of any kind, (give them names) | | Construction paper | | Crayons or markers |  | | Theme Kit - About Me |  |
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