Follow these instructions to make a many-hued diversity chain!
Looking for a crafty way to talk to your kids about uniqueness? This hang-able chain of colorful cutout dolls celebrates the diversity of every human, and it can be easily made from materials you’ve got lying around the house.
What You’ll Need:
Getting Started.
Adding Detail.
Finish & Hang It Up.
What You’ll Need:
• Construction paper in various “skin tones”
• A thicker piece of cardstock for a stencil
• Scissors
• Yarn
• Colored pencils or markers
• A hole puncher
Getting Started.
Draw a simple stick figure onto the thicker cardstock and cut it out to use as a stencil.
Help your child use the stencil to trace additional figures onto pieces of the colored construction paper. A little variation is just fine! Cut them out.
Adding Detail.
Using colored pencils and markers, have kids decorate each stick figure. As kids work, you can talk to them about the many hues of hair, skin and eye color they’ve seen among the children and adults they know, and remind them that no two humans on earth look exactly alike.
Finish & Hang It Up.
Using the puncher, punch holes into the hands of each stick figure. Then, thread the yarn through the holes to string the figures together into a chain and hang it high.
Here’s to uniqueness!