This idea came from Pinterest via a teacher from New York.
Teach your class about bullying with this exercise:
Have each child take out a piece of paper and crumple it up, stamp on it and really mess it up but do not rip it.
Then have them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and dirty it is.
Have them tell the paper they’re sorry.
Now even though they said they were sorry and tried to fix the paper, point out all the scars they left behind. Those scars will never go away no matter how hard they try to fix it. Let this sink in for a moment, and encourage the children to keep trying to fix it if they think it will help. Once they realize that it won’t do any good, explain that this is what happens when you bully another child. You can say sorry, you can try to “fix” it, but the scars remain forever.
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