• Grade 3
• Don’t Laugh At Me – Activity #5: "Circle of Friends"

Activity #5: “Circle of Friends”

This activity creates a great classroom visual of small people holding hands around a large, colourful globe.

Materials:

• Globe template (provided)
• Body template (provided)
• Large sheet of white paper
• Manilla tag board
• Various colours of construction paper
• Felts and pencil crayons
• Glue
• Scissors
• Wool, fabrics, sequins, etc (decorating items)

Teacher Preparation:

• Print globe template onto an overhead transparency
• Project, enlarge and then trace globe image onto a large sheet of white paper adhered to bulletin board
• Print enough Body templates for each child (enlarge to a size that would be suitable to be displayed around the traced globe)

Step by Step:

Step One: Have students paint the traced globe.

Step Two: Mount the painted globe onto the centre of a bulletin board.

Step Three: Each student cuts out their body templates from the tag board.

Step Four: Students colour and dress their “person” using construction paper, scrap material, wool, etc. to create a unique looking person.

Step Five: Pin the individually created people in a circle around the outside of the globe.

Step Six: Create an attractive header for the globe. (E.g. Positive Acts Reach Right Around the Globe; We Are All Unique; We Are All The Same Yet We Are All Different.)

End Product: 

A large painted globe representing the world placed in the centre of a bulletin board with unique people circling the entire globe – celebrating their uniqueness!

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