What do you think of me?

2. What do you think of me? (an example of kids-learning-games) which basically uses paper and different colored sketch pens.

The Self-esteem game - What do you think of me?

Material Needed: One A4 sized plain sheet of paper per child, a few packets of colored sketch pens, a box of safety pins.

When should this self-esteem game be played? When you want your students to perform as a team and you want them to bond with each other. The secondary outcome of this game is very powerful for building the self-esteem of the individual child.

Objectives of this self-esteem game:
1. Write one admiring statement about your team member.
2. Read, reflect and thank your team members.
3. Learn to work for something to admire in another person.

Instructions for this self-esteem game:
1. Instruct everyone to pin a plain sheet of paper on to the backs of one other person. Have them use the safety pins and caution them to do it carefully so as to avoiding piercing the skin of their teammate. At the end of this step every student has a sheet of paper pinned to his back.

2. Then ask them each to select one colored sketch pen from among the sets of pens provided. It is possible that two students in the group will have the same color. That is okay.

3. At this stage each of the students should go around writing on the pages pinned to the backs of their teammates. They are expected to write one characteristic of their teammate that they admire. It has to be written in a couple of sentences only.

4. At this there is a lot of fun and laughter as students are trying to write straight on somebody's back. You'll find some of them feeling tickled, while others are laughing at what somebody else wrote before them.

5. When everybody has finished writing, the sheets are unpinned and given to the person to whose back it was pinned.

6. As the students read this you are greeted with a feeling of awed wonder at the admiring statements that have been written. Then you'll hear chuckles which slowly turn into tinkling happy laughter.

7. Advice the students to preserve this sheet in their wallet or their purse and use it when they are feeling low or discouraged.

8. Also advice them to use this new learning of seeing something positive in everyone they meet. It is a seed that they are sowing for their own good. For as often as they find something delightful in others, so often will they be treated similarly by others.