Hands Up for Your Rights
Exploring and learning about Rights of the Child
Super Woodie
Reasons for doing this activity: • To discuss the qualities needed to lead a Woodcraft Folk Group.• To plan some activities• To have fun making crafts.• To create a young person led resource about the qualities people need to run groups. What to do: Start by asking the the group about their favourite superheroes. Now […]
Woodcraft Crumble
Writing a recipe for your group
Elfin Leaders
At Woodcraft we are learning new things all the time. Adults learn from children and each other and children learn from adults and each other.
Same But Different
An opening activity to get elfins thinking about the issue of refugees
Othering
A short activity using coloured stickers to divide people that introduces the concept of ‘othering’ and its role in conflicts.
Hand Evaluation
A hand evaluation is a good way to get people to think about an activity or event you have just done or attended and give constructive feedback. It is a visual way to collect young people’s views on what you have done.
Co-operative Crafts
Set the group a project where the success depends on listening to each other.
Group Standing
Can your group stand up together?
Change the Situation
A drama activity using forum theatre techniques where participants act out how they would change scenarios they are not happy with
Pronoun Round
This activity introduces the concept of non-binary genders and non-binary pronouns. It
shows the importance of self-identifcation of gender and gets the participants to think about the
consequences of misgendering others.
Equity: Lucky Number
What to do Ask each participant to take turns to roll a dice. The facilitator gives them the number of playing cards from the pack equal to the number on the dice rolled. repeat this for a few rounds until you can see a clear difference in how many cards the participants have Ask the […]