Self-Esteem Project
Self esteem starts to become an issue at around age 10. During this time, children's self esteem begins to decline as a result of influences like friends and the media. Bring a stack of magazines to school and hand them out to the group along with scissors and glue. Ask the students to cut out words or images that stand out to them as telling them how or what they should be or look like and glue them onto a poster board. When you have finished, go around the room and discuss what those images mean, why they were put there and why they are false or misleading. Discuss ways to increase self esteem like joining a club or engaging in a hobby that the student may excel at or learning positive self talk.
I let a 12 year old girl cut out pictures from a few magazines I brought. She ended up cutting out some flowers specifically daisies, some miss me jeans, an justice shirt, a purse, a girl with long hair with a lot of makeup on, a dog, and the words: OMG, cool, and love.
I asked her why she chose those images and what they meant to her. She told me she liked all the clothes because she wears stuff like that. She said the flowers were pretty and she loves dogs. She also said that she text OMG all the time and the word love is important to her because she "loves" her boyfriend.
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