Children will share with their classmates activities they enjoy doing with friends by creating a friendship portrait. WHAT TO DO Brainstorm with children the kinds of activities that friends do together. Have children work in pairs to create friendship portraits. One child in each pair lies on a panel of paper, and the other traces his or her outline. Then partners switch positions and repeat the process so that each child has an outline.
Children begin by labeling their portraits with their names.
Then they fill the outlines with scenes of activities they especially enjoy doing with friends. Children can draw right on the paper or make small drawings and attach them to the outline. Some children may wish to bring in photographs from home of themselves and friends and add them too. Post the portraits around the room. Then bring them together to discuss similarities and differences they noticed among their classmates interests.