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MaiStoryBook: The Kindest Red + *The World I Want to Live In* Craft

by MaiStoryBook

Introducing the companion book to *The Proudest Blue*~ sharing a story of kindness and frienship~ featured in the MaiStoryBook Library Collection: 

“The Kindest Red” by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S.K. Ali, Illustrated by Hatem Aly

*~Click here to purchase your own copy of “The Kindest Red” to start on your own reading adventure!~*

Book Synopsis and Review

On picture day, Faizah eagerly dresses up in her special red dress and matching hair ribbons that were passed down from her mother and sister. Her teacher encourages the students to imagine a better world, which motivates Faizah and her friends to spend the day helping each other. However, during the sibling pictures, Faizah realizes that she and her older sister Asiya don’t match like the other students and their siblings. With the help of her classmates, who are inspired by Asiya’s hijab, Faizah discovers the power of kindness and how it can come back to you unexpectedly.

This book is brimming with diverse representation, and is a great read to model passing kindness to others. There are many examples of how even simple actions such as playing a game with a friend, or even just asking, “How can I help you?,” are acts of kindness that can bring joy and make a big positive difference in someone else’s day.

Themes/Main Idea

  • Passing acts of kindness spreads joy and love throughout the community. Even them smallest kind actions make a difference.
  • Friends help each other find solutions to their problems, and take care to share kindness with each other.

YouTube Video: Guided Shared-Reading Read Aloud Example

Example of a shared-reading, interactive Read Aloud of “The Kindest Red” – how to subtly introduce the vocabulary list words within the text, ask guided questions, and spark conversation!

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*The World I Want to Live In* Craft

*What kind of world do you want to live in?* This book serves as a great prompt to encourage kids to contemplate and share what kind of world they want to live in~ and then to take action to help create this world they are dreaming of. Ask a little child this question, and you may get some fantastical answers like the ones listed in the book: Unicorn world, ice cream world, superhero world, etc. Encourage littles to expand on these ideas, and share how having such a world could benefit and help others. Perhaps ice cream world would be where everyone got ice cream for free, and ice cream makes people happy! Or unicorn world could be a world where unicorns help people when they are feeling sad and share magic and happiness. Whatever their answers and ideas: have fun exploring and sharing how you can change the world for better!

Materials

Directions

  • COVER FLAP
  • Choose Black-and-White or Color templates.
  • There are 2 Different Themes: Choose what kind of world you want to live in// Or Kindest World
  • Print and cut out the Cover Flap.. There are 5 different versions
  • V. 1: Plain Earth
  • V. 2-3: Choose What Kind of World You Want to Live in: Choose an adjective to go in the blank.
  • V. 4-5: Kindest World: Write your name in the Blank
  • Choose a Response Template
  • There are 13 differentiated versions.
  • Versions 1-4: Draw/write about how you would make the world you imagine. For example, if you want to live in a “Safe World”, write or draw how you would make the world safe.
  • Version 5 is Blank for a Free Response
  • Versions 6-8: Use the prompts to share how you can pass kindness to your family, friends, teacher, and community.
  • Versions 9-12: Write/ Draw how you can pass kindness.
  • Version 13: Blank for a Free Response
  • If you chose the black and white version, color it in
  • CONNECT the CRAFT
  • To connect the Cover Flap and Response Template, place glue on the top gray-rectangle tab marked “glue” on the Response Template.
  • Line up the Cover Flap on top of the Response Template so that it covers your responses. (See Sample Photos)
  • Glue down the cover flap and let dry.
  • Lift the Cover Flap to reveal your responses and share what kind of world you want to live in, and how you can make that dream come true!

Enjoy Your *World I Want to Live In* Craft

  • Share what kind of world you want to live in with your family and friends, and ask them what world they want to live in. Share how you can make this world possible.
  • Use your craft to inspire and remind you to take action to create the world you imagine!
  • Display your crafts to make an inspiring bulletin board about making the world a better place.

*~Overall, as always, I hope you all are having exciting reading adventures! Tag me on Instagram @MaiStoryBookLibrary or FaceBook , find me on TikTok or contact me via email to share your own *World I Want to Live In* Crafts and your own reading adventures! I’d love to hear from you and learn more about you!~*

*~Until next time, Happy Reading~*

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