Activities on Telling the Truth for Preschoolers
Honesty is a quality that needs to be instilled in children from a young age. When children learn to tell the truth, it can help them be honest throughout the rest of their lives. Teach your preschoolers about honesty and truth telling with a variety of fun activities that your students will both enjoy and learn from. Rather than lecturing about honesty to very young children, allow them to discover for themselves why telling the truth is the right way to go.
Other People Are Reading
-
Boy Who Cried Wolf Activities
-
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is a beloved children's story that also happens to be about truth telling and lying. Read the story to your class. Make sure students listen attentively. Afterwards, ask students to explain the message of the story. Preschoolers are very young, so they may have to be prompted with direct questions. Ask them why the boy didn't tell the truth, and what effect his lies had. Ask the students to consider what the boy would have to do to win back the trust of the townspeople.
Personal Discussion
-
Depending on the particular group of preschoolers, you may be able to have a good discussion about students' personal experience with truth telling and lying. Start by telling a story about a time that you had to tell a lie and felt bad about afterwards. Explain to students why you lied at the time. Then, ask students to share an experience when they told a lie. Ask them to consider why they did it and why telling the truth would have been a better thing to do.
-
To Tell the Truth
-
Sometimes sharing a deep feeling can help engender young children with a sense of safety when it comes to telling the truth. Have everyone sit in a circle. Begin the sentence, "I was scared when" and have each student take a turn finishing it. Ideally, each student will take a turn telling about a personal experience being scared. Although it might not seem so on the surface, this activity teaches honesty by making the classroom a place where students can feel comfortable sharing their feelings.
Lion and Sheep
-
Use this fun activity to let preschoolers have a good time distinguishing truths and lies. Cut out a number of small lions and sheep, and give one to each student. Start by telling a fact about yourself that is either true or false. If students think it is false, they hold up the "lyin'" lion. If they think it is true, they hold up the sheep. Have students take turns coming to the front of the room and telling a truth or a lie about themselves.
-
References
Resources
- Photo Credit Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images
