Build camaraderie and trust while practicing giving and receiving compliments by taking time during in your next yearbook editing period to have staffers write notes of gratitude, appreciation, or praise to each other.
Activity Goal: Build Relationships
Materials: Paper, clothing-safe markers, tape
Submitted by: The Renaissance Community
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Each staffer traces their hand on a large piece of paper.
- Everyone has someone else tape the paper on their back.
- Each staffer gives a written compliment on every other staffers’ high five sheet and signs it. Do this in a circle or another organized way to make sure everyone gets the same number of compliments.
- Students take a minute to look at their paper and reflect on their peers’ gratitude
Additional Opportunities:
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Do this activity after meeting a deadline or finishing a project, so their comments can reinforce the actions that helped meet the goal.
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