Peace is Love, lots of Love

With the children of the 4th Kindergarten of Agios Stefanos Attica, we started talking about Peace almost from the beginning of the school year. We were talking not only about the Peace beside us and around us but also about the Peace within us. We shared ideas about how we can achieve Peace in our minds and thoughts – listening to the music, playing, blowing up our bellies like a balloon and taking breaths with our eyes closed, singing, drinking water, going for walks…

Then we talked about Peace in the classroom, in the neighborhood, around the world. A lot of ideas were said about what we miss from life when Peace is missing… The dominant words were Freedom and Play but also Walks, Homes, Happiness, Joy, Beauty, Friendship… and of course Health and Love…

With these words in mind, we created our own message for Peace:
Peace is Love, lots of Love
Peace is Friendship
Peace is very Nice
Peace is very Kind
Peace is very Beautiful
We Need Peace to Play Freely and Nicely
Adults, bring back Peace
so that we all live happily and joyfully
To have houses
To go for walks
May we have Health and Love.

The music that accompanies the children’s words is called “So Happy” and was created by Scott Holmes Music.

The creation of the poster along with the children’s words were combined in a video that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/Zt6_DTOYKdA

Enjoy!