Divide into groups.
Using a variety of magazines and newspapers, cut out as many different pictures and clippings as you can find about young people to make a quick collage in each group. Allow about 20-30 minutes for this.
When all the groups are finished with their collages, pin them all on the wall for everyone else to see.
As a group, discuss the messages that the images and clippings in the collages give about young people.
- Are they negative or positive?
- What sorts of themes – for example, clothes or behaviour – do they convey?
- Are these images realistic?
- Are there any groups of young people not represented in the collages?
- How do you think older people might describe young people? Where do they get these ideas from?
- As young people, how would you like to be seen?