Positive Hands

Activity type: Crafting
Materials: cardboars, pen or pencil
Age group: 2-6
Time: 35 mins
Language: None

Activity description: 

• Each child gets a piece of cardboard. Explain to the children that we will start drawing our hands. You can demonstrate how this is done. 
• Parents can help children trace their hands. Some children might find this uncomfortable, if they do, don’t force them, you can draw a hand together, or trace a parent’s hands instead. 
• Whilst you are drawing encourage the children to think about positive words about themselves.  

FOR YOUNGER KIDS: Younger kids may not stay engaged for that long, you can give them paints to paint the hands whilst you do the rest of the exercise, still ask you children about positive words to describe them, make suggestions, but let them paint as we go along. 

• Whilst you are drawing encourage the children to think about positive words about themselves.  
• Parents can think this through with their children and decide together what words to write on the fingers of the hand. 
• Smaller children can be given a hand to paint and parents can write on another one. 
• Once the words are written on the hands, it’s time to cut them out. Parents can do this. Let the children paint whilst you cut out the hands. 
• Once the hands are cut, all the parents and children can help clear up the paints and the workspace. 
• Parents can take the children to wash their hands whilst another parent finishes cleaning up the space.