Here are some activities based on The Giant King. (Children under 7 might need some help from an adult.)

1. Make your own "kindness crown." Using purple paper make a crown and decorate it with words or drawings that show how you could be kind to someone at school or in your neighborhood who feels sad or lonely or different. For example, you could draw musical notes to show a song. You could draw some flowers, or you could make up your own "blessings" and write them around the crown - for example: May the sun shine on you today, or May you be happy.

2. Make a "kindness crown" for the world. Using purple paper make a crown that is big enough to fit over a globe of the world. Now decorate it with drawings, words, or cut-out pictures from magazines to show how acts of kindness might help the world. For example, picking up trash, caring for wildlife, listening to others.

3. Make a "kindness cape." Using scraps of cloth or paper, cut out pieces in the shape of a coat or a shawl. Now in the center of each, draw or write an act of kindness. Join them all together to make a cape like the one the people placed over the giant before taking him to the king's castle. You can display it on a door or a classroom wall.

4. Aesop (if you don't know who he was, find out now) once said that, "No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted." Do you agree with him?

5. Pretend you are the giant living in a cave on Ben Cullin. Now write a postcard to your mother or cousin or anyone you'd like. Describe how it feels to be an outsider. Describe how you feel about the people. Describe how you feel about being so big.
On the outside of your postcard draw a picture of your cave and your surroundings. Design your own stamp and draw it in the top right hand corner.

6. Pretend you are the giant after he has been made the king. Now write another postcard to your mother, cousin, or anyone you'd like. Describe how it feels to belong now. Describe what you like about being a king. Describe how you feel about the people. Describe how you feel about being a giant now.