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This roundup of Diversity Awareness Crafts and Activities is designed to help kids understand that diversity and disabilities shouldn’t limit participation in fun activities. By teaching inclusivity from an early age, we can foster a natural sense of belonging as they grow up. The key message is that everyone, regardless of their background or abilities, wants to join in, and making them feel included is something we can all do!

Check out a website called  Live Youth Strong that has a blueprint for individuals or groups geared to different ages working together or independently as they explore diversity and disability awareness and many other topics.

Live Youth Strong has a program to help kids and their friends to explore new things. Your little ones can earn a Person Helper Patch that they can proudly display on a tote or hat.  Getting involved in the program can be a one time activity or a longer commitment to a cause that you and your family or organization feel dedicated to.

Free Kids Crafts created a Playtime Paper Doll Basketball Player to add to their Playtime Paper Doll Collection  encouraging young people to accept those with disabilities into their sports activities. These paper dolls come in a variety of flesh tones and hair styles that can be male or female. Diversity Puppets are a good way for young children from diverse cultures to start talking to each other. The Easy Eyeglass Holder Project gives older adults a convenient way to store and find their glasses which are often otherwise mislaid.

The inability to communicate is often misunderstood as other things by young children and adults. Some of the activities in this Disability Awareness Packet demonstrate what it is like for the affected child not to be able to communicate in the same way others may. The packet also explores other disabilities.

Wonder Baby. org focuses on the abilities of the visually impaired in their article Bringing Blindness Awareness to a Sighted Classroom. Many of the examples of what blind people experience are based on how hard it is to be blind and their dependence on others. This presentation conversely is about their unique talents and abilities that are well worth exploring.

Kaleidoscope of Friends is a week of activities, like Human Bingo, about finding the things we have in common with each other as opposed to our differences. It looks at disability in the light of our common attributes.

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