Showcase Your Caring Community

Showcase your community’s leaders by creating colorful banners honoring their commitment and service.

• 1.

  With your classmates, think about caring people who are leaders in your community. What jobs or volunteer work do they do? What are some of their most admirable traits? Make a list with Crayola Twistables® Colored Pencils. Choose a trait and identify someone in your community to honor that lives up to that characteristic. Try to choose a variety of people with different roles and backgrounds.

• 2.

  Using Crayola Scissors, cut out two large, identical banners from construction paper. On one banner, write the leadership trait in large letters with the colored pencils and Crayola Twistables® Crayons. Check in a dictionary and write a short, crisp definition of the trait. Add borders and decorate the banner.

• 3.

  On the second banner, show your leader demonstrating the trait you chose. Underneath the illustration, write a sentence describing the person, job, and community contributions. Add design elements so your banner looks colorful and appealing.

• 4.

  Use hook and loop fastener tape to attach all of the class banner sets together. Display them in your classroom, school hallway, or other public place.

Benefits

• Children identify community helpers and the traits they possess.
• Children select and define a word that describes a leader in their community.
• Students design a banner showcasing the leader’s contributions to the community.

Adaptations

• Plan and carry out a Leadership Day. Invite honorees to the school to recognize their contributions to the community.
• Interview the people you chose. Find out more about how they prepared for the job or volunteer role, what they most enjoy, and their personal interests.
• Find out more about helping careers such as a firefighter, paramedic, teacher, or nurse.
• Younger children and some children with disabilities might partner with another student to complete their project.
• Assessment: Determine that students chose a suitably descriptive word, identified a local leader, and showcased that person’s contributions by following directions to complete two banners.