Child Group
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Welcome
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Feeling thermometer
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Climbing up the Tree exercise
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Explain to the children that they are going to make a memory box together with their mothers, but that they first have to
decorate the memory box.
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Explain to them, "We are going to take this box and tell the story of your life and your family's lives on and in the box." Make
it easy for the child to understand.
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Give the child a box with a lid.
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Let the children decorate the box that is going to be used for the memory box by using coloured paper and magazines. Ask
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Ask the children to write their own name and their mother's name on the box.
them to decorate the box with pictures that remind them of themselves, their mothers and other family members.
JOINT GROUPS (30 minutes)
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Ask the mothers to discuss and praise the memory box as decorated by their child. They have to ask their child why she or
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Make handprints. Ask the mother-child pair to first paint the child's hand and to make a hand print on the A3 paper. Then do
he chose all the specific pictures, colours, etc.
the same with the mother's hand.
The mother must make a hand print next to her child's hand print. Write down the names on top of the paper.
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Discuss the hand prints by looking at how they are the same and how they differ.
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Put the hand prints into the memory box and close the box with a lid.
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Promise to keep the box in safe ke W