Activity to help children be aware of their own bodies.
 

Happy New year to anyone and everyone!!!!:rotfl:
Please can anyone help with ideas for an activity to help children be aware of their bodies and how to protect themselves.
I think all the festive drinks have pickled my brain:dizzy:

Depends what you want out of it, but one thing we do is get the children to draw their own faces by looking in mirrors and realsing they have 2 eyes 2 ears etc and drawing themselves on paper they quite enjoy doing this, as for the other, we do things like chat to the children whilst hand washing we have a germ buster poster in the wash room and and it has the stages of hand washing and we chat whilst washing as to why we wash out hands, and about the germs going down the plug hole and not into our tummies etc., also we recently had the Lollipop Lady in as it was Road Safety Week talking to the children about How to Protect themselves and Keep themselves safe and we made Traffic Lights with Children depends on what angle you want to come from. Hope the above is of some help if think about anything else will let you know,

Hi,

A gentle activity could be drawing around hands & collaging mittens & gloves to cover them .. alternatively & if you have time ask for donations of mittens & gloves - all shapes and sizes and have a dressing up activity.

Who can match up pairs - colours, numbers. Chat about what gloves are used for .. protection against the cold & wind. How some materials help prevent hands getting wet, dirty & chapped ..

Thanks for you help. Not sure what direction I'm supposed to take, its for my assessor to do obs on me. She mentioned stranger danger, crossing road ,who to talk to if their lost. I'm just worried about frightening the children and then having an anger mob of parents to deal with, but then my assessor could do obs on dealing with parents and forms of communication.:cheerful:

lol :D

any activity that provides the children with an ability to protect themselves against something gives them the confidence to deal with situations.

Choose something you're happy to prepare & deliver, and know that you'll enjoy doing ..

Chinese new year begins on January 26th this year do you have any Children that would like looking at how fireworks make them feel and react - the noise, smell and colours ?

How, if they feel unsure about anything they can ask for help & explanations .. craft firework paintings - fiction & non fiction story books to see celebrations in action ..


xx

I told the children a story about stranger danger in winnie the pooh, it did not seem to scare the children but just explained that there are nice strangers and not so nice strangers, i passed xx

can u remember the title of the winnie the pooh story?

Not off the top of my head but will deffo look for you today!!! It came in a set of about 30 books! If not I will type the story on ere for you and you can tell the story using your own pictures maybe???? xx

your a star!!! that would be a great help.