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A Wrinkled Heart Activity

1. The activity involves cutting out a paper heart to represent a person's heart and folding or crumpling it when hurtful words are said, then unfolding it for kind words. 2. Eventually the heart is left with wrinkles even when unfolded, representing the lasting damage of hurtful words. 3. Students are encouraged to think carefully about what they say so as not to hurt others or add wrinkles to their hearts.

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A Wrinkled Heart Activity

1. The activity involves cutting out a paper heart to represent a person's heart and folding or crumpling it when hurtful words are said, then unfolding it for kind words. 2. Eventually the heart is left with wrinkles even when unfolded, representing the lasting damage of hurtful words. 3. Students are encouraged to think carefully about what they say so as not to hurt others or add wrinkles to their hearts.

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A WRINKLED HEART ACTIVITY

1. Class is seated on the floor,


2. Start talking about the difference in the things we say that make people feel good
or that hurt them.
3. While talking, cut a big heart from construction paper
4. After it is cut out, hold it up and tell the children that each one of us starts out
with a heart that is as pretty as this one.
5. Have the children begin sharing things that a person might say that might be hurtful
to someone. With each response, fold the heart in random ways for each "hurtful"
sentence or word.
6. Eventually the heart is crumpled in your hands.
7. Tell the class that each time they say something hurtful to someone, they are
putting a little wrinkle in that person's heart.
8. Then have the children begin to tell things that they might say to someone to make
that person feel good.
9. With each response, UNFOLD one of the creases in the heart. Eventually you will
have pressed out all of the "hurts"...except, of course, for the fact that the wrinkles
can still be seen, even though the heart is now unfolded.
10. Talk about how we each have those wrinkles in our hearts from things that people
have said to us, and that the wrinkles last forever.
11. Stress that we want to be careful with what we say so as to not add wrinkles to
anyone's heart.
12. We put that heart up in a high corner of the bulletin board and leave it in plain view
all year. Frequently someone will mention it...that their heart is wrinkled like that one.
13. Get in the habit of hugging someone whose heart is broken and giving the class a
chance to iron out the wrinkles.

** Each of my kids got a red heart. We read the story "Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon". Each
time someone teased her they folded it (creased hard for hard words). Then, as the second
part of the story came, we unfolded it for every nice thing someone realized about her. They
tried to smooth out the creases. Then at the end we talked about how even though those nice
things opened her heart back up, the damage is still done. When you say something mean,
you can try to make it better but mean words hurts and "I'm sorry" makes it better but doesn't
undo what has been done. Then they of course all had to share a mean thing that was said to
them (using no names of who said it) and how even though that might be a friend, they all
still remember those words
.
Other good books to use:
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
Timothy Goes to School by Rosemary Wells
Willy the Wimp by Anthony Brown
Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill
How to Lose All Your Friends by Nancy Carlson

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