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 * Sample Children’s Activities for Middah of**
 * Honoring Parents (//Kibud Av Va’Aym//)**

Sonya would read the children a story illustrating the //middah// and lead a short discussion about it. This would be followed by some games relating to the //middah//. The idea is to use the various game and props to get the children thinking more deeply about the value and relating it to their own lives.


 * 1) Teacher holds a piece of folded paper in one fist. Child has to guess which hand is holding the paper. Teacher then reads the slip of paper. On it is either a quote (“I hate this chicken!”) or an act (Debbie helped her mom set the table yesterday.”). Child then has to say whether or not the quote or actions is an example of honoring/respecting parents. Quotes are meant to be funny, but at the same time sound familiar so that the children start thinking of things they say and do in the context of the //middah// of honoring parents.
 * 2) Children are sitting in a circle. There are two boxes of folded scraps of paper. On the scraps in one box are words for places and times (in a park, in the kitchen, at dinner time) and in the other, words for a parent or grandparent. Children take turns reaching into the box and pulling out a scrap of paper from each. Older children can help the younger ones read the words aloud. The child than has to name some ways he/she could, for example, show respect or honor to his dad in the park (coming when the dad calls him, not whining when it is time to leave, not leaving his snack on the bench for the dad to throw away).
 * 3) Children work in small groups to make up (with help) two skits. One would show a child/children not respecting parents in a given setting and the other would show how they respect the parents in that same setting. Again a gimmick could be used to give them the setting, maybe rolling a dice and then reaching into the bag or sock with the “3” on it.
 * 4) A “concentration” type game in which 20 cards are placed face down on the floor. Each child (done in small groups) takes turns turning over two cards trying to find the “match.” In this case, the matches could be phrases (again, older children could help read) such as “Don’t leave your toys in your parents’ bedroom” with a photo or drawing of a parental bedroom strew with children’s toys.

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