![]() It really helps establish a community of kindness. This is a great activity to do with your own family, or in a small group or in a classroom. You can smooth out the wrinkled heart as much as you can but it still is always going to look a little bit wrinkled from your mean words and your mean actions. I talked with them about how even when you say sorry and apologize for your mean words and mean behaviors, it still has a lasting effect. We compared the paper heart that wasn't wrinkled at all to the ones we wrinkled while we were reading and noticed how different they were. At the end of the book we try and spread out the heart as much as possible and repair it either using tape or Band-Aids. Every time Chrysanthemum’s classmates said something mean to her, the heart got wrinkled a little bit more.Įvery time her parents said something kind and loving to her I had them smooth out the paper heart a little bit and try to repair it. ![]() I told them to pay attention to whether the characters in the book were using kind words or mean words.Īs I read the book, every time a character said something mean to Chrysanthemum, I had them wrinkle up a piece of their paper heart to represent how mean words impact others. Before I began to read, I cut out paper hearts for each of us, plus one extra that we would use later. The activity is simple and just requires you to read the book Chrysanthemum and have paper hearts. ![]()
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