Ask your preschool-age child to look at you and memorize what she sees. Then have her leave the room. Change one thing about your appearance. It can be a button on your shirt, the placement of your hands or how you're sitting. Call the child back into the room. Ask her to find the difference. Take turns with this activity to help your child develop her power of observation and confidence in what she sees around her.
Give each child a plain sheet of paper and a pencil. Assign each child a partner. Ask the children to write down one thing they like or admire about their partner. When everyone is done, have the children exchange the papers. This activity can be done several times by having the children change partners. This builds confidence by showing children what others admire about them.
Divide the children into groups. Distribute one piece of paper to each child and a safety pin. Give each group a set of sketch pens and ask each student to choose one color pen. Have students carefully pin the piece of paper to one of their teammates' backs so that every child is wearing a piece of paper. Team members then go around the group and write something they like or admire on the back of each of their team members in one sentence. When everyone is done, unpin the papers and give them to the child wearing them. This teaches children to find things to admire in others and builds their own confidence by seeing what others admire in them.
Divide the class into groups of four or six. Have the students sit in a circle and focus on one student at a time. Go around the circle and have each member talk about something they admire about that student. Physical characteristics cannot be used. Compliments are encouraged, and only good behavior or positive characteristics can be used. Have one student take notes on the lists and when the game is complete, give each student their list.