Giving to Those in Need - #6

We learned about what it meant to give something away to someone who needs it by reading "George the Giant" and acting it out, but the children thought that it would be okay for George to ask for his clothing back.  As a result, we read the book Some Friends to Feed: The Story of Stone Soup by Pete Seeger.   I wondered how we could be generous to BOTH the children at Creative Minds and to people who did not have enough food to eat?  I showed the children 30 rocks and a can of red beans.  Here is a summary of the brainstorm:

We can make a soup with a some rocks and beans
The rocks might be dirty.
There is only one can of beans but if we cook it it will be enough for everybody.

The I asked, "What happens after group time?" Lunch!
Then I asked, "Do you think the children at Creative Minds would like to have rocks or beans? What would you like?"
Rocks - but let's draw on them.
Then we referred back to the story to figure out where all of the wonderful food came from.  Everyone in the village shared a little food to make a big pot of soup.  I asked the children if they thought they had a can like this one in their kitchens.  The children realized they all had cans of food so the idea of a food drive was born.

Alexis painting her rocks

Francine and Ava decorating their rocks

Orin handed out the hands as the children create the food drive poster

Jeffery asked for red hands

Orin decided to wrap his hands around the can of beans.

Jeffery - red giving hands
Pippa - blue and yellow hands of shining sun
Alexis - blue hand of Francine smiling like shining sun
Lysander - green hand mom making pie and he is happy

Unfortunately, we ran out of time to start our food drive but we did manage to give away the rocks to everyone at Creative Minds.