Family & Community Connections: Strengths Profile, Coloring & Sorting

Celebrate Family Diversity, Community Connections, and Children's Strengths! Help children recognize the importance of family, caring relationships, and community connections with this 10-page Family & Community Connections Toolkit. Designed for early childhood educators, preschool teachers, and child care providers, this resource combines two child-friendly activities and a comprehensive family information form to support inclusive learning, strengthen family partnerships, and celebrate children's unique backgrounds. What's Included? - Many Ways to Be a Family: A coloring and drawing activity encouraging children to explore caring relationships, trusted people, and meaningful places in their lives. Includes flexible drawing and dictation prompts. - Family and Community Strengths Profile: A detailed, reusable family questionnaire for gathering information about children's strengths, interests, languages, traditions, routines, community connections, individual support needs, and family communication preferences. - People Who Help Us: Match and Sort: A hands-on community helpers activity featuring 8 illustrated cutout cards, including four community helpers and four locations, a sorting mat, and a drawing prompt about familiar helpers. Perfect For - Preschool and kindergarten classrooms - Child care centers and early childhood programs - Family engagement and home-school partnerships - Family diversity and inclusion activities - Community helpers and neighborhood themes - Back-to-school and family orientation - Social-emotional learning and belonging - Classroom sorting, coloring, and drawing activities - Culturally responsive classroom planning