Erasmus Plus Activity: Friendship comes through diversity. T-SHIRT DESIGN
Targets:
– Listen to the narrative of the story “Elmer, the colorful elephant”
– Color the images of the story and reconstruct the sequence of the plot
– To grasp the meaning of friendship, diversity and mutual acceptance among the characters of history
– Reflect on the diversity of children in their own reality
Methodologies:
All school children:
– Storytelling of the story “Elmer, the colorful elephant” in a large group
– Use of projector for images
– Class reworking of history
– Pair work to color images with various materials (watercolors, markers, pencils)
– Individual work to color cardboard pages with paint
Children of 5 years
– Reflection in small group with respect to the meaning of the story and common agreement on how to represent it graphically on the T-shirt for the Erasmus Plus that will also be used for the end-of-year party
– Graphic representation of “friendship”, “affection” and “diversity”: a heart of colored hands, the names of all children
Description and verification
The children of the “Il Castello” kindergarten listened to the story of Elmer, the colorful elephant. Each class has colored and created its own Elmer book.
Children of 5 years after having reflected on the meaning of history: being friends means to love each other, to be different in age and color of the skin, to have different games, colors, foods, skills. Personal characteristics are what make friendship more interesting and allow you to do many different things together. For the party at the end of the year, it was therefore decided to represent on the shirt that will mark the transition to primary school, the one that Elmer taught .. a heart, which means love and affection, made by many hands of different colors, one for each mate .. because after three years spent together … you are all friends and you love each other as you are! All different and all unique!
All the children participated enthusiastically in the different phases of the activity and understood the meaning of the story. The five-year-olds enthusiastically made the friendship shirt that during the year-end party will be their symbol of the transition from nursery school to primary school.
