Over the past decade, I have worked with students individually and in groups to build resiliency skills. When the pandemic happened, I expanded these lessons and activities beyond individual and group counseling to my whole 2nd grade curriculum. We work on recognizing strengths, expressing needs, problem solving, and recognizing and utilizing supports. In our initial lesson, we talk about what it means to be resilient and explore the concept of bouncing back. For a visual representation, we make this cute resilience lesson craft: wobble eggs!
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Resilience Lesson Craft
Supplies:
- plastic eggs
- metal nuts
- hot glue gun
- permanent markers
- eye stickers (optional)
Steps:
- Open your plastic egg.
- In the bottom half of the egg, add a dab of hot glue.
- Press a metal nut into the glue, centering it in the bottom of the egg (this is important for balance!)
- If you want, hot glue the egg closed to prevent students from opening it.
- Decorate the outside of the egg with eye stickers or by drawing with a permanent marker!
Why We Do This:
We make these eggs as a visual representation of bouncing back from hard things! It’s okay to feel strong emotions when hard things happen or when we go through something difficult. It’s okay to honor those feelings and talk about them. And it’s also okay to bounce back and keep doing. the things you love with the people you love!
Notes for students:
When we make these, I always have to give my students a few reminders so that the eggs work best:
- Set them on a flat surface and tap them with a finger to try to knock them over.
- Don’t hit them with things like water bottles or rulers (there’s a reason for every rule – obviously it happens sometimes, ha!)
- Don’t shake the eggs – the metal nut might loosen and then the egg won’t wobble like it’s supposed to anymore.
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