Ourselves

Unlock endless opportunities with these awesome activities to help early years learners discover more about themselves:

Self-Portraits: Have children draw or paint pictures of themselves, focusing on their facial features and favourite things about themselves. These can also create a wonderful display for the classroom.

All About Me Books: Create small booklets where each child can include pages about their family, friends, favourite foods, hobbies, and more.

Emotion Masks: Make masks that show different emotions (happy, sad, angry, etc.) and discuss with the children what makes them feel these emotions and what they can do to help others with their emotions.

Family Trees: Help children craft a simple tree using paper and paints, or other art materials, then add pictures or drawings of their family members.

Handprint Art: Use paint to make handprints and turn them into various animals or objects, discussing how unique each handprint is.

My Favourite Things Collage: Provide magazines and craft supplies for children to create collages of their favourite things which they can then present to the rest of the group.

Personalised Puzzles: Make puzzles using pictures of each child that they can put back together, helping with recognition and fine motor skills.

Role-Playing: Set up different stations (like a doctor’s office or a grocery store) for children to role-play and explore different roles in their community.

Sharing Circle: Have a daily or weekly sharing circle where children can talk about their experiences, feelings, and anything special they want to share about themselves.

Key Vocabulary:

We have pulled together a short list of key words that children can learn to talk and learn about themselves:

Family

Friend

Mum

Dad

Step-parent

Brother

Sister

Cousin

Aunt

Uncle

Happy

Sad

Excited

Scared

Angry

Nervous

Surprised

Silly

Relaxed

Confused

Home

Favourite

Hobbies

Tastes

Colours

Body

Head

Hands

Feet

Eyes