Building a Bad Attitude Box as one of our preschool activities can help us be nicer to others. Let's help Mimi's little cousins lose some bad attitude!
McAveler, are so much fun when they actually help us be better kids. Don't you agree?
Look, down there Mimi! There's that someone trapped in that box already!
Let's hurry and show our little cousins how it's done!
Supplies Mimi will need:
Glue
Ribbon or string
Construction paper
Pen
Markers
Small boxes (hinged breath mint boxes, Whitman Sampler candy boxes, empty match boxes all work great),
Here's what Mimi will teach her little cousins:
Cut the construction paper into pieces that will fit inside the small boxes.
Have each child write one bad attitude on each slip of paper or write it for him or her if necessary.
On a separate piece of paper, have the child also write the same bad attitudes in a "List of Contents" for each box.
After there are several bad attitudes in the boxes and on the Lists of Contents, have the children close the lids.
On the top of the boxes, glue on a sign that says "(name)'s bad attitude box".
On the bottom of the boxes, glue their Lists of contents.
The bad attitudes should include but not be limited to things like:
* Not sharing
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* Not minding parents and teachers
Optional:
Cover the box with bright construction paper, wrapping paper, or the Sunday Comics out of the newspaper.
Tie the box up with a ribbon
Optional: Bury the boxes in the flower bed outside.
If our bad attitudes are in the box--they can't bother us.
Wow, McAveler, it looks like somebody needed lots of boxes for these preschool activities!