Small-group Snack Time Learning About Us Activities

1. Talk about children's skin, hair, eye color, and hair texture. Have children look at themselves and other children in large mirrors so they can see themselves in relation to others. Have children put their hands into the middle of the table and talk about what is the same and different about each other's hands. Make hand-and footprint murals, using premixed paints that match children's skin colors. Have children touch each other's hair and talk about how each child's hair feels.

2. Make a book about each child with 4 or 5 photos of the child busy doing her favorite activities. Talk about the child's gender; skin, hair and eye color; what the child can do; what she likes to do. Read about a different child each day.

3. Have a photograph of each child's care-givers (mother, father, mother or father's partners, grandparent, et.) Talk about how they look.

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