Offer age-appropriate books that promote the message of peace. Titles to consider include, "Whoever You Are" by Mem Fox, "If Peace Is..." by Jane Baskwill, "The Peace Book" by Todd Parr and "What Does Peace Feel Like?" by Vladimir Radunksy. Place these books in your classroom library. Read them aloud during story time and allow children to look through them. Discuss the books and the message that they share. Talk about ways that children can spread the message of peace.
Make a peace sign banner using children's hand prints. On a piece of butcher paper, draw a large peace sign with a pencil. Set out different colors of finger paint. Have children press their hands into the finger paint and then press their hand prints onto the peace sign. Hang the colorful peace sign in your classroom. Discuss what the sign means. Talk about how the different colored hand prints represent the different people that live in the world and how peace allows everyone to live happily together.
Role-play peaceful and non-peaceful acts. Use puppets to act out these situations--any type of puppet will work, from animals to people. First, use two puppets to act out a non-peaceful situation; perhaps make one of the puppets say something that isn't nice to the other puppet. Next, act out a peaceful situation with the puppets; you might want to have the puppets play together nicely. Ask children which situation was peaceful and which was not. Ask them which situation is better. Discuss how they felt when they watched the non-peaceful situation. Talk about ways in which children can act peacefully toward one another.
Paint pictures of a peaceful world. Provide children with paper and paint. Ask them to paint a picture that depicts a peaceful world in which everyone gets along. Invite children to share their artwork. Hang the pictures in the classroom to promote the message of peace.
Show children how to make a peace sign with their hands. Instruct them to hold their index and middle fingers up in the shape of a V and to keep the rest of their fingers down. Explain to them that this hand gesture is the symbol for peace. Encourage them to make peace signs with their hands to spread the message of peace to other people.