September is Hunger Action Month, and orange is the color for hunger awareness. Getting children involved in Hunger Action Month gives them a great learning experience as well as a character-building activity.
I often found children’s books helpful in talking about difficult topics when my now-adult children were little. (See “Discussing Difficult Topics with Kids: What’s Worked for Me” at Living Montessori Now.) Following are some creative ideas kid bloggers have used with children’s books to help raise hunger awareness with children along with literature-based activities for Hunger Action Month.
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Activities Using Children’s Books to Raise Awareness about Hunger
Note: Even where the blog has been deleted, you can still get some great ideas from the blog post images.
Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen Helps Us Talk about Hunger (Image from Pennies of Time)
Children’s Book on Kindness: “Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen” from Pennies of Time
Hungry Caterpillar Hunt to Fight Hunger (Image from The Good Long Road)
Happy Birthday, Eric Carle~We’re Doing a Very Hungry Caterpillar Virtual Food Drive to Help Very Hungry Kids from The Good Long Road (blog is no longer available)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear Inspired Food Pantry Donation (Image from The Good Long Road)
Move, Eat, Draw and Learn with Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. from The Good Long Road (blog is no longer available)
Kids Feeding with Reading from Childhood Beckons
A Food Drive Inspired by Children’s Books (Photo from Africa to America)
A Food Drive Inspired by Children’s Books from Africa to America (blog is no longer available)
Stone Soup Craft (Photo from Crafty Moms Share)
Story Time to Help Fight Hunger from Crafty Moms Share
To learn more about Hunger Action Month and No Kid Hungry, check out my hunger awareness posts.
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These are fantastic ideas. I’ve always loved Uncle Willie’s Soup Kitchen. I’m looking forward to implementing some of these ideas with my kids.
Twitter: growingbbb
Great use of books to tackle a difficult subject.
Twitter: AdventuresAdam
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What a great round-up of resources, Deb! Thanks for including our story time to fight hunger! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
I can’t tell you how much I love this post. Thank you!
Twitter: squishablebaby
Grea idea…!Fantastic book….very useful book…from readind this book sure they will respond to emergency situations of conflicts and natural disaster…thank you for yourAction against Hungry….
Twitter: kidsdrawing_hub
i think i pretty much buy your idea. children are more attracted to pictures than anything else. especially when it is the pictures of children like them, of of a complete family. i bet you we will eradicate hunger in a shorter period than we think when we use this. Beautiful post. thanks for sharing this.