I Have a Box

Activity Overview

In this activity, students have the experience of taking their growing sense of symbolism and using it to attach personal meaning to objects that represent themselves. By doing the activity along with the child, the adult who is supporting the work models that we are all unique, and that the objects that symbolize or hold meaning for one person may not be the same for another. This difference, this uniqueness, is what makes every person important, because we each have our own point of view.

What You Need

• Kid Citizen: I am Unique on Epic

• I Have a Box

• Two boxes

• Markers, crayons and craft materials (to decorate the outside of the box)

• A collection of favorite items

Steps

1. Watch I Have a Box with your student, and then present the idea of making our own boxes with our favorite things inside.

2. Collect two boxes, one for you, and one for your student. Personalize the outside of the boxes with your favorite colors, shapes and collage.

3. Go on a scavenger for at least three things to put inside the boxes that are very special to you and your student.

4. Practicing taking turns - sing “I Have a Box” and then share something that is inside your box. After every share, sing “I Have a Box” again to signal the next person’s turn.

5. Read Kid Citizen: I am Unique, and discuss how we are all unique and special in our own way.

Guiding Questions

• Why did you choose this item for your box? Why is it special?

• What makes us unique?

• How are our boxes the same? Different? Why is it good that our boxes aren’t exactly the same?