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A Peace Craft that is Beautiful and Inspirational!

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This dove peace craft teaches a lesson about peace and includes a FREE foldable craftivity, instructions, and book suggestion.peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

A Peace Craft and Poem for Any Time of Year

Today I am sharing a dove peace craft – a foldable writing craft that you can create with your class for Remembrance Day, Veteran’s Day, MLK Day, International Peace Day. or any other day when teaching about peace is the topic. Teach students about peace and use this craftivity to create a beautiful display that combines writing and imagery together.

Doves are the symbol for peace and hearts are the symbol of love. Combining those two symbols together create a beautiful display for your classroom. You can also add colored tissue paper strands and glue them on to the craftivity to create a rainbow.

This FREE dove peace craft includes different sheets for you to customize the final look. There are two heart pieces: one with the word peace and one without. In addition, there are two dove pieces holding hearts: one with the writing template and one without. Finally, there is also a separate writing sheet. You can choose to print the paper on white or colored paper. I printed on cardstock to create a more durable craft.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Before writing about peace on the dove template, I recommend reading the book, The Peace Book by Todd Parr. It is a great book for teaching children about peace. The kid-friendly illustrations and concepts children understand and can connect to, make this a must-read.

Create a chart and brainstorm ideas together about what “Peace is…” with your class. You can read more about how I teach my students to write about peace HERE. There is also a different freebie and more ideas included in that post.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Have your students choose three ideas about what peace means to them to write their peace poems. They will trace the words Peace is and print their own ideas on the lines. Then they trace We need peace! at the end.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

This is a completely optional step but something I often do with my students once their writing is more established to add more “color” to their writing. Use skinny markers (I love the ones from Crayola) to trace the printed words. You could have them create a rainbow with the colors.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

For the peace heart printed on white, the letters can be colored in and the heart can be decorated any way you’d like. I chose to use pastel pencil crayons to trace and shade in the letters for peace.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Cut out the pieces that you’ve chosen for the craftivity after the writing and colouring is complete. Just a tip and something I’ve found works better for little hands. Cut along the outside of the black to leave the larger black outline.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Now to create the foldable part, place the peace heart on top of the dove heart. Create a 1″ fold at the top of the peace heart by folding the bottom of the peace heart up. Try to make the fold straight across. Little hands might need some help with this step.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Add glue along the bottom of the folded part.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Press the folded part down on top of the other heart so they line up with each other. When the folded piece is open, the fold should be high enough for the writing to show completely.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Both hearts should align and the foldable should look like the image above with each heart matching up. To add the rainbow tissue paper, cut long 1″ wide and however long you wish strands of different coloured tissue paper. I prefer to use tissue paper because they blow around and “fly” like a dove.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Turn the dove craftivity over and add glue along the bottom edges of the heart. Stick on the tissue paper strands to create a rainbow or any pattern you choose.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

Once complete, hang the dove peace foldable writing crafts along clotheslines or on a bulletin board to create a beautiful display for your celebration.

peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

FREE Dove Peace Craft Printables

To create the dove peace craft in your classroom, grab the FREE templates by clicking the image below.
peace craft - dove foldable craftivity

I’d love to hear from YOU! Do you teach your students about peace? What activities are your favorites?

Grab my favourite book for teaching peace: The Peace Book and a few other noteworthy books below.

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13 Comments

  1. Proud to be Primary

    at 1:32 pm

    Hi Jenny! If you click to sign up above (make sure your pop-up blocker is off) you will be prompted to leave your info. Then this craft will be sent to your inbox directly!

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  2. Shana

    at 6:29 pm

    Hi, I am unable to find the link to the peace printable. Is it still available ? 🙂 Thank you!

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    • Proud to be Primary

      at 10:54 am

      Click the image above below where it mentioned the free craft. After you submit your email it will be sent to your inbox. 🙂

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  3. Caitlin

    at 10:13 am

    I looked at your TPT page and still couldn’t find the peace printable. Am I missing it somewhere? Thanks!!

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    • Proud to be Primary

      at 10:54 am

      Click the image above below where it mentioned the free craft. After you submit your email it will be sent to your inbox. 🙂

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  4. Michaela Pawluk

    at 3:31 pm

    Hello!

    I subscribed but I did not get a follow up email with the template.

    Is there another way I may have access to it?

    Thanks,

    Michaela

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  5. Monique

    at 12:08 pm

    I would really like a template for the foldable Peace is project! I love it! But nothing is working. I am looking at previous comments, so it seems the link isn’t working. could you please help?
    TIA

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    • Proud to be Primary

      at 12:11 pm

      Hi Monique, I have just fixed the leadbox on this page so pls try again! You can email me at elyse@proudtobeprimary.com if you run into any more issues.

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  6. Tara

    at 7:01 am

    Hello, I signed up for the newsletter as requested but the email I received did not have this craft attached and I can’t find it in the VIP freebie section.

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    • Proud to be Primary

      at 10:19 am

      Hi Tara! It would sent to you in a separate email with a download attached. Please check your junk folder. If not, email me at elyse@proudtobeprimary.com and I will send it to you.

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  7. Astrid

    at 7:57 am

    Hello,
    I want to use this in our peace project in the Netherlands. I tried to download the printable and I’ve tried to click at the picture, but the only thing I can do is going tot Facebook. I can not leave my email so it can be send to me. Will you please send me a copy? My adress is astrid@heuvelschool.nl
    Thank you very much!

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  8. Tiffany Vanyo-Ho

    at 3:45 pm

    Can I get a copy of the dove peace and peace is activity. I looked at the hints above and I did not find anything.

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    • Proud to be Primary

      at 3:03 pm

      Hi Tiffany! If you click to sign up above (make sure your pop-up blocker is off), you will be prompted to leave your info. Then this craft will be sent to your inbox directly! If you still run into issues, please email me at elyse@proudtobeprimary.com for a copy.

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