Issues: Powerlessness, insecurity.
Purpose: To help children design their dream house.
Materials: Crayons or markers, large construction paper, rulers,
pencils, and a sample house plan.
Procedure: Discuss the importance of dreams and the ability
to think about our dreams whenever we want to. Give each child paper, markers,
and other materials necessary to design their dream house. Encourage the
children to draw plans of a dream house that they can visit whenever they need
to. Younger children can describe the floor plan to you. You can draw the floor
plan. They can fill in the details.
Suggestions: Talk about safe places and how everyone needs
such a place. Ask them how a safe place would feel to them. Then have them look
at their dream house. Is there a safe place for them there? How could they
change their plan to include such a place?
Source: Making it Better: Activities for Children living in
a Stressful World, Barbara Oehlberg, Redleaf Press, 1996
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