Build a Miniature Campsite
Help your group prepare to go to camp by making a camp for teddies, lego figures or dolls before you go. Before you start Prepare the group by asking them to bring a toy to ‘go to camp’ to group night. Leaders can bring some spares in case people forget. Have different craft options on […]
Values and Valuables: A Balloon Debate
Discussion about individuals and groups values
A Good Yarn
Discuss your own life timeline to help think about how past events shape the future, and plan what the group can do to see the future they want.
Mini Zine
Find out what a zine is and be inspired by their radical history – then make your own mini zine on a subject you care about.
Changing the World with our Friends
Participants learn basic organising skills/problem solving. How to have convincing conversations. Before you start Come up with multiple examples of people in power, problems and tactics to make up a strategy. E.g headteacher, exclusion policy, petition to go round students and teachers could go together (the tactics are likely to be largely interchangeable) What to […]
Occupy / Den Building
Learn about how to occupy spaces and squatting spaces as a tactic. Learn about laws about squatting. Have fun and build a den – feel ownership over the space.
March on the Boss
This workshop supports groups to learn the March on the Boss tactic Materials Stationary, Role Cards (printed where possible), optional costumes for different roles. What to do Start with a discussion in a circle, ask the group: We want the young people to understand that when you’re talking to a friend who has a similar […]
Monster Walk
Divide the group into groups of six or seven. Tell them that they need to get from one end of the room to the other using six or seven body parts as appropriate while staying together – so if they all hop, that counts as seven body parts (one leg each). Next ask them to […]
The Power of Words
Reasons to do this activity: What to do Ask the Pioneers if they think that the old rhyme ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’ is true? Are there words that wound? Do words really have any power? Ask the Pioneers to write down words on pieces of cards […]
Ten Pioneer Bowling
Ask ten Pioneers to stand in a ten-pin bowling formation (like a triangle) in rows of four, three, two and one. Ask the group to change the top and bottom of the pyramid by only moving three people. Lead a discussion about teamwork:
Lava Pit
Tell the group that they are escaping a dragon’s lair and must cross a steaming pit of lava to get away. They need to get from one side of the room to the other but can only step on the stepping stones provided. The space that the Elfins need to cross must be considerably longer […]
Follow My Leader
Group game, one child leads an action and another child has to guess the “leader”
