How do I teach my class of 3-4 year olds about trust?

Question

What are the activities or bulletin board ideas that I can do with them?

Answer 1

It would depend on the message you are conveying to the kids about trust. What is the purpose of the lesson? What do you want them to know about trust?

Answer 2

ask the kids on your class to bring food like bread, apple etc... and asked them to give their food to friend next to him/her... ask them not to eat the food since it is not their... and see just how many kid didn't eat their friend food at the end of class... then you can teach them about trust, teach them how people gonna trust them by referring to their food either they eat or not... got what i mean?

Answer 3

You can play that game where one person stands behind another and the person in front falls back and the other person has to trust them to catch them. Except the 3 and 4 year-olds might not be strong enough...

Or you can blindfold them and get them to trust their partner to lead them somewhere through a mysterious and dangerous terrain of ... building blocks.

Answer 4

This is a lovely topic. ask them to bring in pictures of pets and make a story board about how they play with their animals and how they trust them not to bite conversly the animals trust the children not to hurt them. Have an Obstacle course and allow a blinfolded child to be led around. Talk about home life and something like bed times do parents trust the children to go to sleep on their own? Or pour their own cereal?

As a teacher think about what your trust them to do, tidy up, play with each other without fighting, line up, speak quietly all these are activities with an element of trust.

Answer 5

Asking them not to eat things they've brought is more about self-discipline than trust.

Do they know the story of the Three Pigs? Ask them if they know why the pigs don't open the door when the wolf asks them to. They don't trust him, and they are right not to trust him. Or, Red Riding Hood. Why did she come into the house with that wolf? She trusted her grandmother.

You could teach them about trust in terms of commercials. I taught my children to identify what commercials wanted us to do and to reject uncritical acceptance of that. "Think own selves" was how one of them put it.

Children this age may like teasing or tricking each other so you have to help them distinguish between harmless jokes and actions and statements that violate the trust they should have in each other and in you.