Butterflies are flying

  • Respect
  • Defense
  • Caring
  • Friendship

Print supplementary material (click here to open) and hand it out.

All the children must cut and colour a butterfly (they can also glue small coloured balls on the drawing). Then they have to make a small hole just in the middle of the butterfly and insert a thin string through it to make the bug fly.

All of us but one will go to the playground and we will run with our butterflies; with this action we will make them fly. The one who is not running will be a hunter; he/she will try to capture the butterflies. If this happens, the boy/girl that was running with the butterfly will say:

I want to be free.
Please, let me fly
and brighten your lives up

The hunter will free the butterfly and the small animal will give him/her a hug. Now both together will go to where the rest of the butterflies are, and the hunter will shake the hand of all of them, saying:

From now on we will be friends and we'll play together.

When the "friendship agreement" is done the butterflies will fly again.

The butterflies can be suspended from the ceiling when the activity is over. They will cheer the classroom and we will enjoy watching them moving with the air.

 



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