Kid Activities Connecting Kids to Kids Building Program Community. An Introduction to this category The following are Games and Activities that encourage cooperation show a fun way of looking at life help stay in touch with feelings explore ways of dealing with outside influences and increase trust and sense of kindness. Community builders will get your children to feel more like they are part of your program or classroom community by interacting with each other. They help children get to know each other and themselves NOTE As with many social activities in school age programs and classrooms, the activities should be open to children who choose to participate IT SHOULD NEVER BE MANDATORY. Some ideas are simple and some will take planning. IDEAS. A FAN OF VALIDATION In this activity students validate one another by sharing appreciative comments Give each child a piece of paper. Nutrition Plans for Morning Workouts. Working out in the morning gives you an energy boost and ensures that you get your workout done before your schedule gets in the. Kids STEM activities has become a very popular topic. Encouraging kids to think, explore, problem solve, and create is a crucial backbone to education that some kids. Activities to Keep Kids Brains Active in Summer As students set out on summer adventures, send their parents a muchneeded life preserver a list of 25. Mike Tang, The Dad Convicted for Making Son Walk a Mile, Responds to Critics AND Offers of Assistance. Have students make a fan by folding the paper back and forth into seven equal sections. Once fans are folded, have students write their names on the top section, unfold their fan, and pass it to a classmate. The classmate writes something he or she really appreciates about the child in the section immediately below the students name, folds the section under so the comment is hidden, and passes the fan to another student. Students pass the fans until each section has a positive statement. A Walk In The Rain With A Brain Activities For Kids' title='A Walk In The Rain With A Brain Activities For Kids' />Need ideas for fun things to do this summer Here are 100 summer fun ideas for kids and parents to do together. Recipes, Crafts and Activities. Popular Posts. Disney Family Game Night. The Best Disney Cupcakes. Top 10 Disney Princess Recipes for your DisneyWeekend. A Walk In The Rain With A Brain Activities For Kids' title='A Walk In The Rain With A Brain Activities For Kids' />When completed, fans are returned to the student whose name is at the top. As students read the statements from their classmates, they realize how many fans they have on their team Source plsweb. T E A M CHEERCreate a shared group identity and reinforce the importance of working together as a team by doing a program or school cheer Have students stand in a circle or in lines. Childrens Literature, Childrens Books, Pre K12 books, Young adult fiction, Childrens fiction, Childrens nonfiction, Kids books, Reading for kids, Childrens. While shouting out the letters T E A M, have them use their arms to spell the letters over their heads, similar to the YMCA cheer that was made popular by the Village People. Have students suggest music andor lyrics to accompany the cheer. Do the cheer whenever your group spirit needs energizing. Variation Use this activity with groups of 4 5 students and have each group create a cheer using a different word that relates to a positive aspect of working as a team, such as S U C C E S S, S U P P O R T, or C O N N E C T. When finished, have groups teach their cheer to the rest of the group. The above activity is based on the PLS graduate course Building Communication and Teamwork in the Classroom. FRUIIT BASKET The class sits in a circle on chairs, with one person standing in the middle. Participants are equally divided between three fruits such as apples, oranges and pineapples. When the middle person calls out a fruit e. The person out becomes the next caller. If a caller says fruit basket all participants have to change chairs. THEN ASK MEBefore coming to you, children are to ask three of their peers to assist them First, childen who know how to do what is asked feel good with demonstrating their ability two, children being helped or shown see that they too will learn what their friends can do three, community helping and sharing is encouraged and four, children that have been helped will reciprocate and help others when asked. Example If Tommy cant tie his shoe and he comes to you question to see if he asked three of his friends to help. If nosay, Tommy needs help in tying his shoecan someone help This will NOT embarrass the child as it will be part of program routine and hell learn from his friend. In  things that Tommy can do he will return the favor and  assist others when  asked. For this to work it needs to be consistent. Post a sign with the 1 2 3 as a reminder Yes, it does work. Children become a more cohesive unit, independent, and self esteem soars as they learn from and help each other I never had an instance when there wasnt a child that would not assist another child. With consistency it soon would become part of program routine. Barb Banner and Image by Kid. Activities. net TUG OF WAR PANTOMIMECommunity Building Drama GameIn theatre tug of war, it is the same as the game except theres no rope. The children play with a space rope. This game can be played with two, four, six or eight players at a time. Staff encourages the children to Pull and challenges them to stay in the same space. If the children totally concentrate on the object between them, they will use as much energy as if there were a real rope between them. This is an important exercise in that no one can do it alone it shows that problems can be solved ONLY by interacting with each otherA good activity for building community spiritYou may want to check out the. Drama and Drama Game Categories. They are ALL Community Building Activities There is an introduction to Drama, Pantomime, Improv, and a good variety or Drama Games SAY SOMETHING NICE DAYAll Ages On Say Something Nice Day, notice something you like about a person and tell them. Declare a day in your program that this is Say Something Nice Day. Each participant promises to approach one person that day and finish the sentence One of the things I like about you is. When you are back together at the end of the day, share your experiences. ALL IN ONE Game. Stand in a circle holding hands. One person is in the middle. That person in the middle calls in some one one at a time. The goal is to see how many people you can fit in the middle without breaking hands. You can create your own Guinness Book of RecordsPASS IT ON TABLETS. Pass it on books are question and answer books that are passed around between the kids allowing for quick, creative responses. This is done in a notebook with one question or name of a child to a page. Friends then respond on the pages and sign their name below their response. Students can have their own books if they choose or there can be one programclassroom book. In my experience, many children liked to have their own version. Rules are to be courteous and kind regarding each child and comment. If something is written about a person, it should be complimentary This is something that goes back to the late 1. Have a What I Want To Be Dayand invite kids to come dressed up in clothing that REPRESENTS a job that interests them. Have students research their chosen profession and report to the group andor make posters depicting their chosen occupation. Just thinking of things they can wear, design, and make could take up a portion of the week Take pictures of the event to add to your program scrapbook and for kids to take homeCREATE A ME COMMERCIALHave kids write a two to three minute television commercial. The topic is why someone should hire them. The commercial depicts the students special qualities. After they work on these, the students present their commercials in front of the group. Another variation is for a group of five to create a commercial for each one and then present this in front of the group. All Chinese Characters Pdf there. A version for younger children could be for each child to create a commercial about what is nice about their friend. For a novel way to present it get an appliance boxlarge box cut am oblong hole in it to represent the screen. Fun The kids stand behind the screen and present on T. V.  THE JOURNAL Journaling is a great idea for all Young children who cant write yet can draw pictures andor dictate. For Older youth As a journal entry, each student might write a poem, describe a dream, or share something they are pleased about or unhappy about. It is the students journal you may read an entry only if the student says you may. However, check occasionally to ensure that there are at least two dated entries per week.