I'm going to be doing a presentation to 1st and 2nd graders and want to use the magic drawing board for a lesson on teasing/bullying. I thought about having the drawing be the bully and then erasing his mouth until he starts saying kind things. Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks,
Doria

I use the drawing board as a mirror.
"Boys and girls I have a very special mirror with me today. Only I want to put your faces in the mirror. I'll start with the eyes. Will you please point to your eyes? (draw the eyes as you look around at different kids) and now touch your nose. (draw the nose) Thank you for touching the OUTSIDE of your nose! How about a BIG smile! Look some of you still have all of your teeth! (Draw the line for the smile) Touch your chin. (draw it) This is the hard part. Everyone looks ALMOST the same, but our hair is different. (draw some hair) and we may wear glasses (draw glasses). Our eyes might even be different colors. (look at audience and move the drawing's eyes)

One thing I do know is that people LOVE to hear nice things. Turn to someone and say, "I like your hair! Is it real?" Look at the drawing. "I like your hair."
Drawing: Thank you! (pause) I like your hair too!
Vent: And I like your glasses.
Draw: Thanks! I like your glasses (or eyes) too!
Vent: And you have a great smile!
Draw: Because I'm happy to see you!
Boys and girls do you see why I call this a mirror? If I say something nice to it, then it says something nice right back! I've never tried this, but I wonder what would happen if I said something that wasn't nice?
Vent: Mirror, I think your hair is funny looking.
Draw: I think your hair came from a clown!
Vent: And I think your glasses are crooked.
Draw: That's because you need to wear glasses!
Vent: And your nose is big.
Draw: Yes, and it thinks you stink!

Oh, my boys and girls! Do you see what happened? If I say something bad it says something bad right back to me! What should I do? I can't think of anything else to say that's good! Can someone help me? (get a volunteer or two to say something nice to the mirror and it will say something nice back to them.)
Let's practice on each other. I want you to look at your friend and tell them something nice about what they are wearing. Do you like their shoes? Tell them. Are they wearing a smile? Tell them you like their smile!
Now I'm going to give you an assignment. At recess I want you to tell three people something nice. You can even count your teacher!

(Note: I got this idea from a kindergarten teacher)

You can draw a picture of the bully while you tell a story. (Start drawing a face)

There once was a boy who was the school bully named....

(Finish with mad eyebrows)

He would push kids around and was not nice at all. A lot of kids at the school were afraid of him and were always looking around to see where he was.

(have the eyes look around left to right) The kids will start screaming and pointing at the board.

(do the look but don't see bit with it a few times) No, that's not really the bully, that's just a drawing of him....

(Finally he stops moving and you continue to talk) Sometimes the bully would stop a kid and talk really mean to them....

Board - "YEAH!" (have the mouth move and say something rude like yeah, or nananana)

(kids will come out of their seats screaming and pointing) You react to with a jump.

Now you can interact with the board and present some of the pointers to help the kids. Something like....

Are you really Butch the Bully? YEAH

Well the kids in this school are learning something today about you. BLAH BLAH BLAH....WHAT?

We are learning that they don't have to be bullied around by you anymore.... etc.

(I'm not an educator but there are steps that kids should learn to protect themselves...

# Avoid areas where no teachers are around
# Make sure you aren't alone
# Don't bring expensive things or lots of money to school
# Sit with a group of friends at lunch
# Take a different route through hallways or walk with friends or a teacher to clas

this is where you would review them and have the kids all answer loudly together..are you going to do this kids? YES! ) or something. The board's eyes can look around nervously when they answer.

Finally after the steps have been presented, tell the bully on the board that all the kids would like him to stop being a bully and start being friendly...

(Erase his mad eyebrows and draw regular ones) Perhaps have him say "I'm sorry...I guess I'll have to learn how to change" or "Are they really going to do these things, really? I want my mommy....

There are a lot of good resources out there that can help with Bullying....

I got my pointers from http://www.cyc-net.org/today2004/today040426.html

Lots more http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B2GGGL_en__205__205&q=stopping+school+bullies&btnG=Search

One more thing you can do with the board is to turn it sideways (make sure the eyes don't fall into the opening) before drawing a picture and write the word BULLIES on it. Erase the last part and you are left with BULL. Talk about how a Bull can be a bully.

Then write the word out again BULLIES and erase the first part. You are left with LIES. "Boys and girls, when a bully gets caught he, or she, may lie to try to stay out of trouble. It is important for you to know who else was there so the teacher can ask them what happened. They are called witnesses. You should write down what was said, when it happened, and who saw it.

(Thanks to www.motivationalmagic.com for this idea.)

Thanks Tony and Steve for the great ideas!
Doria
www.doriamartuzzo.com

Another way to finsh the BULLY part is tell the Principal, or teacher that this guys is bullying you....that person can come up and 'rub him out', that what the teacher, is supposed to do...fix the problem right?
It certainly illustrates (pardon the pun...) the point better...
Take it from there...maybe then RE draw him as a better person....?

I especially like the redrawing. I like to let Bullies know that the difference between a superhero and a villain is what they choose to do with their powers. Do they choose to help others or to hurt others? One could change a masked villain into a caped superhero.

Steve, where are your drawing board examples again? You've probably got a square jawed superhero on there already.