Hands are not for Hitting

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It’s never too soon for children to learn that violence is never okay, hands can do many good things, and everyone is capable of positive, loving actions.

Music/Movement: Take photographs of your special instruments. Place the photographs onto a cube shaped box. Have the instruments and the cube with the instrument choices available in the music area. Children can take turns rolling the cube die to see what instrument to play. Others can join in by dancing or singing or rolling the die to play different instruments. Hands come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Hands are for saying hello. There are lots of things your hands are meant to do.My hands help me turn out the light. My hands help me turn out the light. My hands help me turn out the light – good night; my hands help me turn out the light. Art: Have the children go to easel painting in pairs. Tie the paint brushes together so that they can create a painting together. Talk about how it makes them feel to try to paint a picture together (happy, silly, frustrated, mad, etc…) Hands are for working together. Hands are for playing, learning, doing, and building. Hands are not for hitting. Hitting is never ok. So what can you do when you and your friend don’t get along? Created in response to requests from parents, preschool teachers, and childcare providers, this book belongs everywhere young children are. Includes tips for parents and caregivers.

This material was developed by the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning with federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (Cooperative Agreement N. PHS 90YD0119). The contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial projects, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. You may reproduce this material for training and information purposes. While reading the story, demonstrate the suggestions throughout the book: handshaking, clapping, blowing kisses, pointing, etc. Children can practice what we can do with our hands. There are other ways to let your feelings out. Can you think of more ways to let your feelings out?Music: Sing and use gestures top the song “Skinamarinky Dinky Dink”: Skinamarinky dink, Skinamarinky doo, I love you. Skinamarinky dinky dink, Skinamarinky doo, I love you. I love you in the morning, and in the afternoon. I love you in the evening, and underneath the moon. Skinamarinky dink, Skinamarinky doo…I LOVE YOU (I really mean it), I love you too! Give children several scenarios and play a game of “What could you do instead of hitting?” Examples below: As a story review, ask the children “What can you do with your hands?” As the children’s answer, write or draw a picture to make a class list of “what our hands can do.” The children can also demonstrate what their hands can do and you can take photographs of the children in action. The photographs can be added to the class list and posted. My hands help me comb. My hands help me comb. My hands help me comb my hair; my hands help me comb.

My hands help me clean my spills. My hands help me clean my spills. My hands help me clean my spills and mess; my hands help me clean my spills. After a while, you’ll feel better. How do you use your hands to play? When that happens, you and your hands can play again. Hands are for all kinds of playing. Hands are for helping. There are many ways you can use your hands to be a helper. How do you make yourself handy? This book explains all the things hands can be used for and also explains that hands are not for hitting. There are moments of interaction, asking kids to tap a beat or clap or high five. There’s some thing hands are NOT for. How does it feel when someone hits? Hands are not for hitting. Hitting isn’t friendly. It hurts a person’s body. It hurts a person’s feelings, too. Hitting I’m Sorry.This booklet about hitting can be personalised to specifically support individual students. For a some students, dealing with frustrations are not easy and this can manifest itself in behaviours such as hitting. This social situation identifies alternative calming strategies that can be used when students begin to feel frustrated or angry and want to hit others. You can easily add the student's name and details and also include their preferred method of calming. Read the booklet regularly, specifically prior to identified times of difficulty such as outside play. Designed to be inclusive, Twinkl Social Situations use positive language to re-affirm that is it OK to have different feelings, and gently guide students to potential ways they can deal with them. What are Social Situations? It's never too soon for children to learn that violence is never okay, hands can do many good things, and everyone is capable of positive, loving actions.

The best book about teaching manners. I found it really helpful when my first born was just 6 month old. And after that my all kids followed the same book. And we used to say whenever any child is angry .. Hands are not for .... Hitting.”Peter never plays Here comes that kid with me. who teases me... I want that I don’t like it when my toy! sister takes my things! Why do people hit? Sometimes they feel….. A good book to discuss gentle hands and not hitting. The book focuses a lot of the fun, helpful, and and loving things we can do with our hand, then repeats that hands are not for hitting because hitting hurts and is not kind. Introduce the concept of the day by having the children think about the many different ways we use our hands to talk. Recall from the story the ways our hands can talk: hands wave hello and goodbye, hands shake when meeting, hands draw and write, they gesture “come here” and they point, clap, count, hug, give high-fives, make a promise… Discuss how we can also talk with our hands using sign language. Demonstrate a few simple signs or show photographs and have the children imitate the signs. Encourage the children to try to use signs throughout the day to request “food”, “all done” or “more” Sometimes people want to be the boss of Have you felt these ways? Maybe you wanted someone. to hit someone. But hands are not for hitting.