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Contact_FullName: Lynnette Moya Contact_Email: nlezmoya@msn.com Idea: We have the children in our class color a picture of the globe. We then have them glue it onto a blue piece of construction paper. We then have them glue people shapes out of various colors to represent different races. On the top we write "I have a dream". Contact_FullName: latoria Contact_Email: latorialf2002@yahoo.com Idea: have different color construction paper cut in strips cut out medium size hearts to glue on front of strips. talk to the the children about Martin Luther King's dream of everyone loving each other Contact_FullName: Dan Eliot Contact_Email: deliot@indiana.edu Idea: What we did to promote peace was to take a very large piece of bulletin board paper and cut it up into a bunch of puzzle pieces. We then had students write on the puzzle pieces what they thought MLK Jr.'s dream was, or what they thought peace was. They could write words or draw pictures...it was pretty open ended. In the end, we took all of the puzzle pieces and put them together to show how all of us, no matter who we are or where we come from, fit together like a large puzzle. Contact_FullName: Cassie Muellner Contact_Email: cassiehurley@netzero.com Idea: For MLK's birthday we had our 4 year olds use there hands and paint. First we talked about diversity and sharing. Then at the art table the children chose their flesh tone from our paint supply and made a hand print. Then they were asked to pick another flesh tone that was different from theirs and their other hand print was in that color. We had them match up the thumbs on the paper for unity. It turned out really cute and the parents loved it! Contact_FullName: Cathryn Contact_Email: icehopes@aol.com Idea: Paint two puzzle pieces- one brown and the other peach or white. Glue them together so it looks like they are holding hands. Glue a pin that you can buy at craft store on the back and wear with pride... Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: gladney22@msn Idea: I will have different color squares in the art area for children to choose from. The children will draw a picture of what they Dream of being when they grow up and we put all the squares together and call this our Dream Quilt. Contact_FullName: vicki Contact_Email: tictoc157@aol.com Idea: This is a very simple but cute idea. Cut a large piece of paper into a circle to represent the world. Have the children paint it blue. Next-cut out simple shapes of people (or trace the child's hand) using multicultural colored paper. Have the children glue them onto the world. We tell the children the only stipulation is that the shapes must touch each other. For a nice finishing touch we add some great song lines done on the computer and cut out in balloon fashion. ex. "We are the world, we are the children..." "United we stand..." It was fun for the teachers to come up with the lines. Contact_FullName: vicki Contact_Email: Tictoc157@aol.com Idea: Last year our tow-year-olds did this very interesting group art project. It was done on a level that they could understand. We cut pictures of people out of magazines. The first paper was labeled "Before Dr. King"; we had the children paste only white people here. The middle sheet of paper was a multicolored finger paint project in where the children just used their fingertips. When it was dry we put a picture of MLK in the center. On the last picture we Labeled it "After Dr. King" and had the children pasted on pictures of people from all walks of life. The parents loved the idea and it looked so cute on the wall. Contact_FullName: cadi Contact_Email: cadilady77@hotmail.com Idea: we made handprint doves using white paint, googly eyes (or dip pinkies into black to make eyes) and paint an orange beak or glue on a small orange felt triangle. paint both hands white, but only one thumb should be used (as the dove's head). stamp splayed hands onto construction paper and decorate with eyes and beak. we made these for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, but can be made anytime you want to celebrate peace Contact_FullName: ablankenship Contact_Email: ablankenship@stargate.net Area: Martin Luther King Idea: 1 very large cloud cut out of poster board. inside it let it say i have a dream. let small clouds hang at different lengths with child's name and dream in it. Contact_FullName: Amy Contact_Email: AllStraw@AOL.com Area: MLK-art Idea: After reading several MLK books, my class and I make an "I have a dream" quilt to put on our wall. We talk about Dr. Luther's dream, and then I let the children draw theirs. We end up with a lot of different ideas, but all wonderful. We then put the pictures on the wall and border it with construction paper. Makes a great display. Contact_FullName: Elizabeth Contact_Email: MidgyBear@aol.com date:: 01/16/02 Area: MLK Day Activities for a preschool to try. Idea: Go to a local merchant, like a bread store, or a specialty store in your area, and ask if they would like to participate in "I Have a Dream" bags. Explain to the store owner that you will talk to your children about MLK Day, and have the children decorate one or two of the bags with their art work, consisting of "their" dream, or one of MLK's dreams. Then explain to the store owner that he/she would get the bags back so they could bag items in them....on a Saturday because that's when most stores get their business). Write the child's first name Only, on the bag with the preschool they attend, and their age, with "I Have a Dream" written on the top of the bag. Explain then take the bags back to the store you had them donated from and the store clerk would use them to bag people's items in. This way people would get a little piece of a child's artwork to take home. Explain to the store owner that it would be great business because most of the parents would want to come buy things from their store so they would have the chance to get a hold of their child's bag.
1-13-01Nothing major, but after we talked about Dr King and when his birthday is the children all did some process art and made balloons and birthday cake for Dr King and just made a birthday bulletin board for him.
1-11-01I copied off a picture of a cloud and wrote at the bottom I have a dream. The child told us what they wanted to be when they grew up and we wrote it down. We also glued some cotton on the cloud. We make end of the year books, so this is a great piece the kids and parents can look back at years down the road.
1-11-01For Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You can cut out footprints for each child, and have them tell you a "dream" of theirs to write on it. After you write their dream you can give them flesh tone markers or crayons to color it their skin colors.
Date: 1-7-00DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BIRTHDAY Art Activity: Cut a large heart shape of construction paper for each student. Use tempera paints (Blue, red, green and yellow). Each student paints their hands with the different colors and places their various color hand prints on the cut-out heart shape. Punch a hole at the top of the heart shape and use different colors of ribbon to hang up the heart shapes. Take about sharing, and working together so that we can keep Dr. King's Dream Alive. This is a good multi-sensory exercise to teach colors, shapes and body awareness concepts. ideaFriendship Wreath - I send home enough colored paper for parents to trace their child's hand six to eight times and ask that they return the child's hand tracing "cut-out" with the child's name on each one (each child gets a different color of paper) when the hands are returned we talk about everyone being friends and how nice it is to share and things on better when we share then the children trade one of their hand cut outs with another child and continue trading until they have different colors instead of just one color and then they each glue all the hands around a paper plate to form a wreath and then add a nice bow. Date: 1-19-99For MLK day I get two large pieces of butcher paper and cut them in cloud shapes. I then let the children paint on one side and then on the other piece they paint their hand prints and we put the child's dream on it. example: I have a dream that someday...(fill in child's dream) Name: Date: 1-7-99Hands in Friendship I get a really large sheet of construction paper for each child and put their name in the center. Underneath their name put their hand-print using tempera paint. Then you can have other children from the class put their hand-prints all around their friends and include their name. It might be helpful to put a box around the center print and name to help keep the papers straight! This is a great activity to invite parents in to help- I usually have three adults to help. Also, you may want to do this activity over a period of a few days, to give some of the hand-prints time to dry. These make great placemats or end of the year gifts if you can get them laminated. Date: 12-27-98For Martin Luther King Day last year my pre-k decorated an old sheet by spraying different colors (food coloring and water) from a spray-bottle all over it. We watched the colors mix and talked about how people are different, just like the colors, but how they can live/work/share together (just like MLK believed). Then after the sheet dried I cut it into squares and let everyone take a piece home.
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