Project Rangeet: Playdough Diversity
Children learn about diversity with playdough: we can all look different, but on the inside we're made of the same ingredients.
Age Groups: Big Kids, Little Kids
Skills: Appreciating Diversity, communication, Comparison, Curiosity, Expression, Social Emotional
Plain, colorless, white play dough
Colored markers or paints
Here's a ball of white playdough for each child. How does it look, smell, and feel?
Let's each pick a different color and draw or paint on our balls of playdough.
Let's talk about our balls again. What has changed? What's the same?
Let's compare people to our balls of playdough. We may have different skin colors, religions, and abilities, but we are all people — and we're all great just the way we are!
Culture - the beliefs, customs, and traditions of a group of people
Different - not the same as something else
Diversity - having many different forms, types, ideas, etc.
Race - a group people have been put in based on their history, language, culture, and sometimes physical qualities like skin color and facial features
Religion - an organized system of beliefs with ceremonies and rules used to worship