Our Kids Come First members have been busy working their way through the alphabet with fun and engaging activities. As we continue through our Alphabet in Motion program here’s a look at a few more letters our members have enjoyed…

“F” is for Friendship – Members enjoyed friendship games like ‘Friendship Knot’ and made up special friendship handshakes. Our girl members also made friendship bracelets for one another and cool friendship fortunetellers.

“F” is for Fancy – Our girl members were feelin’ fancy on a special Fancy Nancy themed day (based on the popular children’s books). Girls were encouraged to wear something to the club that makes them feel fancy. After dressing up, we read Fancy Nancy books, painted our fingernails and had a proper tea party with real china teacups and pink lemonade.

“G” is for Games – For our letter ‘G’ day we took the opportunity to learn and play our club games. Members rotated between 3 different board games. This was a fun way to teach and learn games that some of our members had never played.

“H” is for 'Ha! Ha! Ha! (Humour) – Members enjoyed a good laugh on our “Ha Ha Ha Day”. Members read funny books, told knock-knock jokes and played games to get them giggling.

“I” is for Improv – Members had a great time getting dramatic playing improv games. Acting and improvising is a great way to get the creative juices flowing. After playing a few games, members had an opportunity to write “I Am” poems and put their creative ideas on paper.

“J” is for Jungle Animals – We have so many animal lovers in the club that jungle animals were a popular theme.  Members read and learned about jungle animals, and danced to jungle-themed music. Our members also created ‘jumbled jungle animals’ by combining two animals (eg. Snake+Aligator=Snakeagator).

“K” is for Kindness– Members used the letter ‘k’ for an opportunity to pass on random acts of kindness. Our girls made a special flower pens for the secretary at Hyde Park school. Members have noticed that she’s always loaning out pens and thought this might be the perfect surprise for her.

Our boy members got messy baking up a special treat for the Hyde Park school staff. They were quite enthusiastic about surprising the wonderful adults that works so hard for them each and every day.