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CANAAF Colouring Story Book
Every child should feel heard and seen in the stories that they read. That’s why CANAAF created a colouring story book that children with Alopecia Areata can feel connected to. The book takes you through the journey of two children with Alopecia Areata as they recognize their special qualities and find friendship.
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Bald Barbie Doll
How The Bald Barbie Doll Can Help Children Cope With Hair Loss
When a person experiences hair loss for the first time, it is an incredibly difficult thing to process emotionally. It’s hard to understand why it is happening, and to come to terms with the fact that hair might never grow again.
When Alopecia or hair loss becomes a reality, this not only affects the person who is losing hair, but those around them too: children, partners, siblings, parents. Adults will wonder what they can do best to support you, and kids will try to make sense of what is happening. Children like to see people and dolls that look like them. This can be a huge part of their self acceptance.
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Celeste and Her New Wig
A Confidence Inspiring Activity
This creative activity is based on the children’s book Celeste and the Wig Shop to help children recognize and be proud of the many wonderful qualities they have, with or without hair.
Parents can first download the drawing of Celeste, and the grid for making strips of paper “hair”. Click the images to download.
Help your child identify and write different things about themselves on the strips of paper and glue them to the photo as “hair”. They can write qualities they like about themselves such as kindness, or things that they are really good at like playing soccer, and drawing. It can be anything that reminds them of the exceptional person they are. This is showing them as well as others that hair does not define them or prohibit them from being AMAZING people, capable of anything! They can also colour, dress-up, and decorate Celeste in any way they want to.
Materials for this activity:
-Download the pictures of Celeste and grid to trace onto the construction paper (click photos to download)
-Glue
-Crayons
-Construction Paper (color of their choice)
-Markers, Color Pencils or Pens
-Scissors
Alopecia Areata Word Search
Have Fun while Learning New Words
This is a two-page activity that you can do with your friends. See who can find all the alopecia and CANAAF-related words first, then see if you know the meaning of the words you found.
Materials for this activity:
-Download the word search (click photo to download)
-Pencil/crayon/marker
