What makes me, me!
Help girls appreciate their strengths
Encourage girls to deepen their self-knowledge and understand the meaning of 'be true to myself'.
- Hand out ten strips of paper to each girl.
- Ask the girls to write one of their strengths or personality traits on each slip – characteristics they feel describe them, such as ‘reliable’, ‘friendly’, ‘confident’ or ‘good at maths’.
- Next, girls should place their characteristics in order of what is important to them. Once this is done they can share their lists with the group and discuss how they would be different without particular character traits. Is there one that each girl could lose and still be ‘herself’?
- To take it further, link the slips together to form personal paper chains that girls can take home to remind them of all the important strengths they can be proud of.
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