If the Shoe Fits
Children's Activity
Object:
Parents or Teachers: The lesson today was about rules and finding
loopholes around rules or bending and stretching rules until we make them
fit whatever situation we want them to. Children are very interested in
shoes. There are so many different kinds. There are also different ways to
fasten them. Spend some time talking about all the different ways to
fasten shoes. Bring and show examples as you discuss the different ways.
Some of them might be: tennis shoes with one lace, tennis shoes with
double laces of different colors, lacing them from the bottom, lacing them
from the top, no laces at all, laced but not tied, tied in a bow, knotted
loosely with instead of tied, double bowed, velcro, and laced part of the
way and velcro at the top. Your children may think of even more ways. Talk
about how when moms and dads say to put on shoes and tie them, that
sometimes children find all kinds of ways to do what they're told, but in
just a little different way than the parents expected. Explain that this is
what the lesson is talking about. Give them each a piece of paper and
provide a variety of materials (glitter, glue, tape, markers, strips of
fabric, crayons, trims) and let them design their own shoes. Discuss that a
shoe is for protecting our feet, just like rules are made to protect us and
those around us.
