Family program: We See Color Party
This open-house style, super adaptable family event was created to provide kid-friendly, low-inertia ways to talk about skin and hair color, the first step in healthy racial literacy and learning. The program also emphasizes the key anti-bias idea that differences are positive, creating a pathway for every child to feel safe.
Full program description
Our community is full of unique people! Let’s celebrate our many differences and similarities – from the way we look to the things we like – with crafts, activities, and high-energy dancing.
Hip-Hop Dance with Movement Revolution | 10, 10:30, or 11 a.m.
Join us for a joyful hip-hop and street dance performance. You’ll have a chance to join in at the end!
Craft Station | 10-11:30 a.m.
Use beads and other materials to design a keychain perfect for putting on your backpack!
Community Art Project | 10-11:30 a.m.
Help us create a colorful community art display — customize your own paper cut-out person and celebrate unity and togetherness!
Sensory Play | 10-11:30 a.m.
Our skin is amazing and works hard to protect us all day long. Enjoy fun, colorful sensory activities that help us celebrate and talk about our different skin tones and all the beautiful colors, shapes, and textures we find in our world.
As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his important work, we remember Maya Angelou’s words that “in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Together, let’s be color-brave, choosing to affirm and celebrate our visible differences like skin colors and hair textures in fun, kid-friendly ways. Research shows that talking about what we notice is healthy for everyone. Of course, we’re more similar than different — humans share 99.5% of their DNA!
This program is inspired by the book I See Color: An Affirmation and Celebration of Our Diverse World by Valerie Bolling and Kailei Pew and illustrated by Laylie Frazier.
Assets
- We See Color Party social story. To help kids and families know what to expect at the program, we created a social story that we printed, laminated and left at various places in our Youth department for parents and caregivers to read to themselves or their children.
- Craft. Use beads and other materials to design a keychain perfect for putting on your backpack!
- Sensory Play. Our skin is amazing and works hard to protect us all day long. Enjoy fun, colorful sensory activities that help us celebrate and talk about our different skin tones and all the beautiful colors, shapes, and textures we find in our world.
- Community Art Project. Help us create a colorful community art display — customize your own paper cut-out person and celebrate unity and togetherness!
- COMING SOON: Scavenger Hunt.
- Booklist: Celebrate diversity with books
- Printable take-home coloring book: Curious about Diversity
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