~ Let Us Teach Peace ~

Check out these teacher-tested classroom and family-friendly activities that promote peaceful personal relationships, an understanding of the futility of war, and ways to world peace.

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-Build a Peace Wall – Combine your ideas for peace with everyone else’s to make a thought-provoking display in your school or community. All ages.

Can You Say Peace – Learn how to say peace in different languages while learning about different cultures.

-Golden Rule – Learn how the Golden Rule is found in all the great world religions

-One Person Using biographies, students learn how individuals can affect change.

-New Year’s Resolution Flags – Make resolutions to foster peace and spread the word by creating an original flag. All ages.

-Origami Peace Doves – Doves have long been the symbol of peace. Learn how to make an origami one and how to teach others to make them. Intermediate and up.

-Paths to Peace Read the biographies in Paths to Peace and learn about people who have worked for peace. Intermediate to High School

Peace Book  – A review of a simple book about peace by Todd Parr and set of activities for toddlers to 2nd grade.

-Peace Calendar  – Read Peace Begins with You, then create a calendar of peaceful ideas and thoughts to share with friends and the community. All ages.

-Peace Circle – Participate in a peace circle and learn how to think like a peacemaker. All ages

-Peace Day  – Suggested ways to celebrate International Peace Day on September 21st.  See Celebrating International Peace Day for resources. All Ages

-Peace Doves – Think about ways to bring about world peace, make paper peace doves, and display them in a way that excites interest – in a school, community space, peace march or rally. All Ages

-Peace Journal – Become aware of the role each one of us plays in creating a peaceful world and to record one’s thoughts about it in a peace journal. All Ages

-Peace Pledge   – Talk about peace and take a peace pledge. All Ages

-Peace Tale Storytelling   – Use folktales to introduce ways to live peacefully. Intermediate to High School

-Peacemakers’ Biographies  – Research renowned peacemakers and write original biographies. Intermediate and up

-Pinwheels for Peace   – Learn about Pinwheels for Peace and get directions for making a pinwheel.

-Poems & Quotes for Peace   – Writing poems about peace. High School

-Sadako’s Cranes  – Learn about Hiroshima and Sadako, then make your own origami paper cranes. Intermediate to High School

-What Does Peace Feel Like?   – Read What Does Peace Feel Like? and other books about peace, then create artwork and poetry about how peace would feel to you. Elementary level. Elementary