Compassion for Kids - Sympathetic Algae

Promote compassion to children through a fun activity. Sympathetic algae is a simple activity that you can use to talk to children about the current situation of the ocean. This is a good activity to introduce compassion for kids and teach how they can help take care of the ocean and our environment.

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Sympathetic Algae Compassion for Kids and Taking Care of the Sea Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS

After the compassion for kids activity give kids new worksheets. Click the link below to download and print.

Download the Free Printable Ocean Worksheets

Most parents emphasize the importance of strengthening their children’s cognitive abilities, leaving aside the learning and development of emotional intelligence and values fundamental for integral children’s growth. Without a doubt, promoting education based on values will allow them to grow up being better people.

Compassion is that feeling of sadness that arises when identifying oneself with other people’s pain, which prompts us to take actions that reduce that suffering. In short, compassion is the ability to become sensitive to other’s pain, something that is much needed today.

Many people tend to confuse empathy with compassion; however, there is something that differentiates one from the other. Empathy is the ability to understand the feeling of others, and compassion is that feeling that drives us to carry out a restorative action.

Compassion brings positive aspects to children’s lives. When experiencing it, the neurological system is activated, creating well-being, calm, and joy that favors relationships. It also helps children cope with conflicts and overcome them appropriately. Many of them even find meaning in their lives.

Being compassionate benefits the person who is suffering and the person who is being compassionate at the same time. Children must be aware of their feelings and allowed to express their emotions freely. Suffering is not far from people’s lives; the important thing is to be able to face it and understand that even from bad things, positive things can emerge. Still, above all, children learn to freely help those who need them.

Parents should help their children be aware that being compassionate towards those who suffer does not weaken them. It is not a characteristic behavior of a particular gender. In other words, by being empathetic, manhood is not lost. That can become a fear that prevents children from being compassionate. All people at some point need someone else’s compassion.

Sympathetic algae love for the ocean tale and exercise

THEME: COMPASSION FOR KIDS AND LOVE FOR THE OCEAN

HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?

Topic: The importance of promoting compassion in children

Age: 4-6-year-old children

Goal: Through this compassion for kids activity, we aim to promote compassion in children while developing skills to apply this daily.

Difficulty level: Advanced. This compassion for kids exercise is designed for children to learn to be compassionate and friendly with the environment while having fun. Adult participation and supervision are required.

Skills:

Precision in hand and finger movements
Eye-hand coordination
Motor coordination
Attention
Autonomy
Focus
Self-esteem
Following instructions
Conscience

MATERIALS

Cardboard or construction paper
Coloring pencils
Sea animal drawings glued to wooden sticks (previously made)

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

Step 1:

Using the drawings of the sea animals, talk about the current situation of the ocean. You can speak as if it were a story to capture the attention of children.

Step 2:

After the story, children will take the construction paper and the coloring pencils and draw how they would help the sea.

draw with colored pencils. compassion for kids exercise

Step 3:

It will be great if children can verbally express what they draw.

ACTIVITY RESULT

An ocean tale and the drawing of what children can do to help to care for the sea. Compassion for kids exercise.

HOW TO DEVELOP THIS COMPASSION FOR KIDS ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD

You can do this compassion for kids activity with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, you can give them a drawing of nature made on cardboard to color it and identify themselves with the environment and how to take care of it. In this way, children will carry out a ocean activity appropriate to their development and abilities.

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OVER 6 YEARS OLD

You can do this compassion for kids activity with older children. To increase the difficulty level, children can make a craft with cardboard, foamy, colors and create a story that will help take care of the sea and its environment. In this way, children will carry out a growth mindset activity appropriate to their development and abilities.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION – THE SYMPATHETIC ALGAE COMPASSION FOR KIDS

In this compassion for kids video, you will find detailed information about the “THE SYMPATHETIC ALGAE” activity, designed for 4-6-year-old children. Here an adult will tell them a story with characters from the sea.

This compassion for kids exercise aims to show compassion for animals, the environment, and people who need it. This activity will help children develop precision in hand and finger movements, eye-hand coordination, motor coordination, attention, autonomy, focus, self-esteem, following instructions, and conscience.

They will need cardboard/construction paper, coloring pencils, sea animal drawings glued to wooden sticks (previously made).

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