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Description

Celebrate the helpful people in your life and let them inspire you do something kind.

Resources

Scissors
Coloured pens or pencils
Glue sticks
Sticky tape
A4 card
Tables
Chairs

Before you begin
-Tell everyone that they’ll be creating their own trees to represent the helpful people in their lives. Ask them to bring in pictures and information about the people they live with, their family, and other people who help them at school, nursery, or Scouts.
-Remember to let parents and carers know that people will cut up the pictures during the activity.
-Print off enough copies of the ‘Leaf templates’ for everyone in the group, and draw a giant tree for everyone to display their work on.
-Set up enough tables and chairs for everyone.

Instructions

Story time
-Everyone should sit in a circle.
-Someone should read Micah's Act of Kindness by Jess Connett. (Attached)
-After reading the story, everyone should take some time to reflect on it as a group.

My roots
-Give everyone a copy of the ‘Leaf templates’.
-Everyone should find a space around a table where they can work on their leaves. They should make sure they have any pictures and information they’ve brought with them. If not they can draw themselves.
-Everyone should stick or draw a picture of themselves inside one of the leaves on their sheet, and add any other information they want to include about themselves.
-Some people may need help with cutting and sticking their pictures.
-The person leading the activity should display the tree that they drew before the session.
-Everyone should stick their leaves onto the tree.
-The person leading the game should help everyone to stick their leaves on the tree.
-As a group, everyone should reflect on their leaves. Would anyone like to share anything about them?

Grow the tree
-Everyone should cut out more leaves and add information and pictures about other helpful people they live with, family members, and people at Scouts, school, or nursery.
-Some people may need some support to think about who to include on their leaves, especially if they haven’t brought information to the session.
-Whenever someone finishes a new leaf, they should add it to the tree.
-Everyone should talk about the tree and share their thoughts. Why was it important to bring everyone’s information together?

Be inspired
-Go around the group and ask everyone to talk about why they included their people on the tree. How are the people kind and helpful?
-People don’t have to share if they don’t want to. Someone could keep a list of the helpful ways to make the next step easier.
-Everyone should choose one or two ways that they could be kind or helpful. For example, if they’ve included a big sister who always helps them to tidy up, they could try to help their siblings or friends tidy up next time they play.
-Everyone should go and do their best to do the helpful things they chose.

Tags

• All About Me
• Family
• Family Tree
• friends
• help
• story

Badge Links

• All About Me - Interests