Look Around for Ways to Help
When Dora goes out on an adventure, she encounters all sorts of problems to solve and people/animals to help!
A lot of people want to be helpers, but it can be hard knowing where to start.
A tip: Just look around! No matter your age, there are ways that you can be helpful to yourself and to others right where you are.
Parent/Caregiver Tip: Children who are asked to “be helpers” are more responsive than children who are asked “to help.” (Source) So, encourage the little ones in your life to pitch in and be helpers to make the world a better place!
Age Groups: Toddlers
Skills: Comprehension, Helping, Independence
Instructions
- Let’s get ready to go out for a walk!
- First we need our shoes. Where are they? Can you bring your shoes to me.
- Next, we need your jacket. Go and get it!
- Now, I need my keys. Please help me find them!
- We’re ready to go! Thanks for helping us get ready.
Vocabulary
Help - to aid or assist someone
Ready - prepared
Bring - to carry towards something or someone
Age Groups: Little Kids
Skills: Empathy, Helping, Independence
Materials
- Paper and Crayons
Instructions
- Let’s think about ways that you could be a helper around our home.
- Has someone left socks on the floor? You can pick them up! Is someone feeling blue? You can sing a song to cheer them up.
- Let’s make a grid with nine squares on our paper and fill each square with a word or drawing of a way you can help.
- Each time you’re a helper, let’s mark the square in your Helping Bingo chart. How many squares can you mark in one day?
Vocabulary
Make a difference - to have a significant positive effect on a person or situation
Help - to aid or assist someone
Home - the place where we live
Age Groups: Big Kids
Skills: Empathy, Flexible Thinking, Helping, Independence
Materials
- Paper and Crayons
Instructions
- Let’s think about ways that YOU can be a helper around our home, around our neighborhood, in your school, at the library, or at the community center — anyplace where we happen to be! There are so many ways that you can help make a difference right where you are!
- Let’s make a grid with 12-16 squares on our paper and fill each square with a word or drawing of a way you can help.
- Each time you’re a helper, mark a square in your Helping Bingo chart. How many squares can you mark in one day?
Vocabulary
Make a difference - have a significant positive effect on a person or situation
Help - to aid or assist someone
Community - a group of people or neighborhood
