Life Sized ME

Another home school Mum, whom I highly respect, gave me the idea of this life sized ME activity. My boys loved it.

Here is what we did:  First the boys lay down on a huge bit of paper and we drew around them.  Then we dithered around for about a month, with these huge bits of paper in our desk, getting in the way, I wouldn't recommend that bit.  

I finally got myself organised to fit this activity into a home school day, and this is what we did.  In different parts of our bodies I asked then the boys answered the following prompts;

Head:

3 things I want to learn this year are...

Heart: 

I love ...

Tummy: 

My favourite foods are ...

Arms:

1. My favourite things to do are...

2. I feel nervous when ...

    I feel relaxed when ...

Hands:

1. My favourite  (for each finger/thumb) colour, movie, Bible character, lollie/sweets, song

2. People I like spending time with are (a dash leading into each finger)

Legs:

My top 5 dreams for 2014  (physical, spiritual etc)

I then suggested they lay down on top of their outlines (carefully) and think about all the things they had written under them.  I then asked them if there was anything else that was important about who they were, they should write it on their feet.

Later in the day after reading a portion from a book called Boundaries with Kids, I decided to add a responsibility element to these life sized Me's.

We stood looking at our outlines, which I had hung on the wall, up high so they looked bigger than life.  I spoke with them about how God had given them these bodies, like machines (it's a boys world in our house), they need a driver, someone in control.  I asked them who was in control of their machine?  We talked about who makes their machine lift things or move things? Who makes their machine move their arm?  I asked if I could make their arm move, and we concluded, no, unless I forced them, I could direct them to move their arm, but they would have to comply and do the moving.  

This lesson has been a spring board to talking about self-control.  Controlling our machines is self control..