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REMEMBRANCE DAY THEME

CRAFTS:

Red Poppies
Have the kids cut out a 5 x 5 cm poppy out of red craft foam. Using black craft foam, cut a small circle for the centre of the poppy. Glue it onto the flower. With scotch tape, place a safety pin on the back of the poppy, then pin it onto the kid’s shirt or coat.

GAMES & ACTIVITIES:

Hug Tag
This friendly form of tag is a good way to promote peace. The only way a player can be safe from the tagger is to hug someone. Don’t be surprised to see a few giant hugs as the game proceeds.
 

SONGS:

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STORIES:

In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

The Story of the Peace Crane
A Japanese tradition holds that anyone who folds
one thousand paper cranes will be blessed with health
and long life. These graceful white birds are thought to
live for a thousand years.

Sadako Sasaki was not quite two years old when
World War II ended. Sadako grew into a high-spirited
and active girl who excelled at foot races. When she
was about twelve years old, she fell ill with leukaemia.
From her hospital bed Sadako decided to fold one
thousand cranes. At first it was easy enough, but as
the illness grew worse each fold became an immense
labour. She was able to complete only 644 cranes
until her illness made it impossible to continue.

From her bed she held up one crane and said, “I will
write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the
world.” The story of Sadako became widely known
and others took up her unfinished task.

In Hiroshima’s Peace Park stands the statue of a
young girl. Every year on Children’s Day (May 5) it is
covered with mounds of cranes brought by children
from all over Japan. The children promise to join
together to build a world that will choose the way of
peace. At the foot of the memorial (where the paper
cranes lie) these words are carved: “This is our cry, this
is our prayer: to establish peace in the world.”
 
 
 

FOOD SUGGESTIONS:

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