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Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St Louis, Missouri, 63131 | ||
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Understanding Cancer - Quiet Time - Hope - Giving - New Beginings - Friendship - Love - Feelings - Rainbows & Seasons - Family Memories |
Activities
For Children
New Beginings
 Parents:
New experiences in life can be fun or scary and often can present new feelings, emotions and questions. "New Beginnings" encourages children to talk about something new they have experienced and about how it has affected their life. You can use this activity to talk about how loving someone with cancer is a new experience too. Children
Try to think about some of your new beginnings that were fun or maybe even scary. Do you remember the first time you went on a roller coaster? When you see a roller coaster now, do you think it is fun or scary? Maybe both? Have you ever played soccer? When you're the goalie, it can be scary when the ball comes your way, and at the same time it is so much fun to play! Activity:
Create a Flower-Face
Ask an adult to help you cut out different parts of a flower from construction paper. You'll need a round center big enough for you to glue your picture and several large petal shapes where you will write. Glue each petal shape to the back of the center piece. When the glue dries, turn the flower over and glue your picture or write your name in the center. Now use a pencil, pen or marker to write your new beginnings -- things that you have done for the first time -- on each petal. Ask your parents to put your flower on the refrigerator or a bulletin board. Activity:
Make Some New Beginnings
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