CORE CONCEPTS
The following are core concepts that should be addressed during this session:
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Interaction between mother and child
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Interaction between mother-child pairs
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Communication skills
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Being comfortable with each other
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Enhancing a strong bond between mother and child
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Enhancing self-awareness
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Cooperation
OUTLINE OF THE SESSION
JOINT GROUPS
Picnic and picnic games
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Welcome everyone to the picnic.
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Explain the session and how the events are going to follow each other up.
Activity 1: Ice-breaker (15 minutes)
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Climbing down the Tree: The children start by showing their mothers the Climbing down the Tree exercise
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Feeling thermometer: Children are to explain to their mothers how the feeling thermometer works by telling them how they
are feeling at that moment. In addition they are to ask their mothers how they are feeling and to allow their mothers to mark
this off on the thermometer.
Activity 2: Preparing the picnic food (60 minutes)
Note to the facilitator: Arrange the chairs and tables to form a circle where all the mothers and children can face each other. Ask the
mothers and children to put their completed sandwiches and cupcakes on plates placed in the middle of the circle.
The mother-child pairs are given slices of bread and other sandwich ingredients so that they can prepare sandwiches. They also receive
cupcakes/muffins to decorate.
Activity 3: Enjoying lunch (15 minutes)
Once the food is prepared, the mothers and children can go outside and enjoy it on the blankets laid out under the trees (if it is too
cold, then inside the session room).
Activity 4: Games (15 minutes)
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Potato/Egg races: Give the mothers a piece of string or a stocking so that they can tie their leg to their child's. The motherchild pairs are to race with the other mother-child pairs holding a spoon and balancing a potato/egg on