Little Divas girls' program - February 8th "What Is Love, and What is Not"
On February 8th, the Little Divas girls' program came back together to wrap up the previous two weeks and start on with a new theme!
As always, we start our session with an ice-breaker discussion question, and then an ice-breaker game. The discussion question for the girls today was: if you could ask a wild animal one question, what animal would you pick and what question would you ask it? The girls had some very creative and interesting answers. Our ice-breaker game for the day was Heads Up, which is an electronic version of charades! We played in teams, and with Heads Up you do charades as fast as you can for your team, with the aim of the team correctly guessing as many as you can in the allotted time. You could really see the connection the girls have with each other in this game, as they seemed to have an unspoken language of understanding between them without needing to speak very much at all, which worked very well for them with charades!
Before we dove into the new themes we would be exploring next with the Little Divas program, we reviewed and summarized some of the main themes we explored and discussed over the previous few weeks:
We then moved on to our next theme, which was healthy and unhealthy relationships. There was a bowl with balled up pieces of paper in it, and the girls were asked to take a couple balls of paper each. They were instructed to silently read what their papers said, and decide whether each would be "What Love Is" or "What Love Is Not". We had two garbage cans set up with those two labels, and each girl would read her paper out loud to the rest of the group, and toss it into the can that she thought the saying on the paper matched. For each saying tossed into one of the cans, we would discuss as a group why they thought it was one way or the other, which highlighted for the girls the concept of what a healthy vs. unhealthy relationship (of any kind - friendships, families, etc) would be like. These were some of the questions or statements that the girls had on their papers, and some of the themes and specific points discussed with each:
After this activity that introduced the girls to the idea of what healthy love does and does not look like, we started our new art project - DYI zines about how we each see and think about love, titled "Love According to (Our Name)!" This would be a project that would carry over into next week's session, but the sections of the zine that we started working on in this session were "Map of My Heart" (a "map" or visual representation of the people and things that we love that hold special places in our hearts), "If You Love Me..." (detailing what we think it should look like when someone truly loves us), and "If I Love You" (detailing what it feels like when we truly love someone, and what we like to do with/for that person that we love).
When the girls were doing their "Map of My Heart" sections of their zines, we had a really sweet moment where they suddenly asked myself, Twoey, and Maymuna how to spell our names, which we realized was because they had included us in their maps of their hearts. It was a heartwarming moment that really emphasized how much this program has meant to these girls.
As always, we start our session with an ice-breaker discussion question, and then an ice-breaker game. The discussion question for the girls today was: if you could ask a wild animal one question, what animal would you pick and what question would you ask it? The girls had some very creative and interesting answers. Our ice-breaker game for the day was Heads Up, which is an electronic version of charades! We played in teams, and with Heads Up you do charades as fast as you can for your team, with the aim of the team correctly guessing as many as you can in the allotted time. You could really see the connection the girls have with each other in this game, as they seemed to have an unspoken language of understanding between them without needing to speak very much at all, which worked very well for them with charades!
Before we dove into the new themes we would be exploring next with the Little Divas program, we reviewed and summarized some of the main themes we explored and discussed over the previous few weeks:
We then moved on to our next theme, which was healthy and unhealthy relationships. There was a bowl with balled up pieces of paper in it, and the girls were asked to take a couple balls of paper each. They were instructed to silently read what their papers said, and decide whether each would be "What Love Is" or "What Love Is Not". We had two garbage cans set up with those two labels, and each girl would read her paper out loud to the rest of the group, and toss it into the can that she thought the saying on the paper matched. For each saying tossed into one of the cans, we would discuss as a group why they thought it was one way or the other, which highlighted for the girls the concept of what a healthy vs. unhealthy relationship (of any kind - friendships, families, etc) would be like. These were some of the questions or statements that the girls had on their papers, and some of the themes and specific points discussed with each:
After this activity that introduced the girls to the idea of what healthy love does and does not look like, we started our new art project - DYI zines about how we each see and think about love, titled "Love According to (Our Name)!" This would be a project that would carry over into next week's session, but the sections of the zine that we started working on in this session were "Map of My Heart" (a "map" or visual representation of the people and things that we love that hold special places in our hearts), "If You Love Me..." (detailing what we think it should look like when someone truly loves us), and "If I Love You" (detailing what it feels like when we truly love someone, and what we like to do with/for that person that we love).
When the girls were doing their "Map of My Heart" sections of their zines, we had a really sweet moment where they suddenly asked myself, Twoey, and Maymuna how to spell our names, which we realized was because they had included us in their maps of their hearts. It was a heartwarming moment that really emphasized how much this program has meant to these girls.
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