Helping Hands

We shared the story of the Good Samaritan in our preschool class this week. We had the children act it out as we read a very simplified version. (Their favorite part, by the way, was paying money to the "innkeeper." We used real coins and that was a hit!) Then we talked about ways we can all help people. I wrote down the answers because, in a class of 3- and 4-year-old children, they're always classic.

Me: What's something you can do to help someone?

Them: "Ride a horse."

"Clean blood." (This, I think, was derived from the part of the story where we talked about the man laying injured on the side of the road.)

"Help my mom and dad."

"Drive a car."

"Pennies!" (This little one was holding the jar of coins used to pay the innkeeper.)

"Go to the place... at the roller coaster place."

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CLASSIC preschooler answers. Love them!

After talking about other ways we can help people, we made our "Helping Hands" by decorating hand-shaped cut-outs and writing ways we can help others on the back. Then, we strung the hands on ribbon to make a "Helping Hands" necklace. The more things the children could think of to help someone, the more helping hands they collected and strung on their own necklace.