Tool "Rainbow Street"

Language: English

Project Featuring This Tool: Rainbow Resources

Themes:Gender and Sexuality Inclusion and Equality

In this riddle the children have to find out who lives on Rainbow Street. It introduces different types of families.

Time 30
Approximate number of participants up to 30
Age under 10, 10-15
Date published 9 Dec 2011, 14:02

Objectives

To introduce different types of families

To reflect on differences and similarities between families

Materials

Copies of the riddle for each pair (appendix)
Paper and crayons

Step-by-step instructions

1. Distribute the riddle to pairs of participants. Ask them to find out who lives in which house with the help of the clues below the picture.

2. After 15 minutes or when most pairs are finished, ask for the solution. Give the right answer if no one has found it out.

Debriefing

What are the differences between these families?

Is there anything good or bad about families being different?

In which of these families would you like to live? Why?

Make clear that all families are different and that everyone prefers to live in different settings. It doesn’t matter if someone live’s with two fathers, or one grandfather, or two mothers, or one father and one mother, or without their birth parents, but with other adults and with children who are not their brothers or sisters – they can all care for them, or be too strict, or be very funny, or very different from them.

3. Ask the participants to draw their own homes and the people they live with. All pictures are put on the wall, symbolising a long Rainbow Street. Everyone can shortly present their picture.

Tips

1st house: Paul, Lloyd, Andy, Anna

2nd house: Tim, Nadja

3rd house: Simon, Sarah

4th house: Martina, Tom, Carly

You can find the appendix in the attach file

Attached files