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Printable worksheets

Every activity from the handbook, written as a sheet you can print and take into the room. Each one lists the goal, materials, steps and debrief questions.

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Bridge of Values

Goal To understand different perspectives and appreciate diversity.

Materials Open floor space, masking tape for the line, prepared statements.

Steps

  1. Mark an imaginary line across the room, from 'strongly agree' to 'strongly disagree'.
  2. Read a statement on a topic such as freedom of expression, equality, or art as activism.
  3. Participants place themselves along the line according to their opinion.
  4. Invite each participant to explain their position without interruption.
  5. Repeat with two or three further statements.

Debrief questions

  • Did anyone move after hearing someone else? What made you move?
  • Where did the group agree most, and where did it split?
  • How can this exercise open a conversation in your own community?

Facilitator notes

Silent Acting

Goal To use body language and creative expression to highlight youth-related challenges.

Materials Scenario cards (unemployment, bullying, discrimination), space per group.

Steps

  1. Split into small groups and give each a scenario card.
  2. Groups prepare a short scene performed in complete silence — gestures and emotion only.
  3. Each group performs; the audience watches without commenting.
  4. After each scene, the audience says what they believe the message was.
  5. The performing group then reveals their scenario.

Debrief questions

  • What was understood without a single word, and what was missed?
  • Which emotions were the easiest to read?
  • What possible solutions did the scene suggest?

Facilitator notes

Create Your Own Game

Goal Foster creative thinking and educational tool design.

Materials Cards, dice, paper, markers, scissors, glue.

Steps

  1. Teams choose a social topic: teamwork, mental health, conflict resolution, or their own.
  2. Teams design a simple game with a clear rule set and a learning goal.
  3. Teams build a rough prototype with the basic materials provided.
  4. Teams swap games and play each other's prototype.
  5. Each team notes one improvement suggested by the players.

Debrief questions

  • What did the game teach that a discussion could not?
  • Which rule created the most useful conversation?
  • How could you use this game in your own youth work?

Facilitator notes

Value Sorting

Goal Help youth distinguish between what they can change and what they cannot control.

Materials Small blank cards, pens.

Steps

  1. Each participant writes 5 values they find important, one per card.
  2. They reduce the list to 3 cards, setting aside the two they can let go of.
  3. They reduce it once more, down to a single value.
  4. In pairs, participants explain their final value to each other.

Debrief questions

  • Why did you choose this value?
  • Do your values differ from others? Why?
  • Which of these values can you act on in your community this month?

Facilitator notes

The Empty Chair — short theatre script

Goal Open a conversation about inclusion, diversity and peer support.

Materials Four chairs, one left deliberately empty.

Steps

  1. Cast three young people from different backgrounds.
  2. Scene: at a youth centre, the three friends discuss the absence of a peer who stopped attending after feeling excluded and bullied.
  3. Perform the scene with the empty chair visible to the audience throughout.
  4. Invite participants to write symbolic support letters to the 'missing friend'.

Debrief questions

  • Have you seen a situation like this in real life?
  • What could each character have done differently?
  • What would make your own space feel safer to return to?

Facilitator notes