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Description

Turn your recycling into a famous landmark from another country, then discover what life is like there.
(From scouts.org.uk/activities)

Resources

Clean items of recycling
Sticky tape
Masking tape
Sticky tack
String
Scissors
Scrap paper
Coloured pens or pencils
Free brochures from a travel agent (or images of landmarks)

Instructions

Activity taken from https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/one-person-s-rubbish-is-another-person-s-landmark/
Designed to be used on Zoom or as a socially distanced activity.

This is a great activity to run during an online session. Check out the advice on using Zoom and other popular digital platforms and the guidance on being safe online.
Make sure you’ve risk assessed your meeting. If you’re doing this activity face-to-face, you’ll also need a COVID-19 safe risk assessment that’s been agreed by your line manager. You can check out more detailed guidance on the link above.
However you do the activity, everyone will need their own recycling, sticky tape, scissors, and scrap paper. Give people plenty of notice so they have time to collect the recycling.
It’s also useful to have a book or brochure with facts in, as well as some pictures of landmarks for inspiration. People could do some research before the session.

To build your landmarks online: -
1. Everyone except the person leading the activity should mute themselves.
2. Everyone should show their friends their pile of clean recycling and any brochures, books, or pictures they have.
3. Everyone should choose a landmark from another country – it could be another country inside the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland), or a country outside of the UK.
4. When the person leading the activity says ‘go’, everyone should use the recycling, sticky tape (and other resources), and scissors to recreate their landmark.
5. Once everyone’s finished their landmark, they should take some sticky notes or scraps of paper and write some facts about their chosen country’s currency, language, national dress, culture, and customs. They should stick these facts to their model.
6. Everyone should take it in turns to show their finished model off on camera. Everyone else should guess the landmark the model’s based on and the country it represents.
You could ask people to raise their hands if they know the answer then name someone to unmute themselves and guess, or people could type their guesses into the chat.
7. Once everyone’s guessed, people should break down their models and remove the sticky tape, so that the items can be recycled.

To build your landmarks face-to-face:
1. Everyone should find a space at least two metres away from everyone else. They should put their clean recycling (and any brochures, books, or landmark images) in front of them.
2. Everyone should pick a landmark from another country – it could be another country inside the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland), or a country outside of the UK.
3. Using the recycling, sticky tape, and scissors, everyone should recreate their landmark.
4. Once the models are complete, everyone should get some notes or slips of paper and a pen.
5. Everyone should write some facts about their chosen country’s currency, language, national dress, culture, and customs on their slips of paper. They should stick these facts to their model. They can use their books or brochures, as well as anything they may already know.
6. Everyone should take it in turns to show off their finished model. Everyone else should guess the landmark each model is based on, and the country it represents. They should stay in their spaces throughout.
7. Once everyone has guessed, everyone should break down their models and remove the sticky tape, so that items can be recycled.

We adapted this to do the Builder Activity Badge by asking the Beavers to draw their design on paper first and then, at the end, tell us what they would change if they built it again.

Reflection:
This activity reminded everyone that they’re a local, national, and international citizen. What did people find out about the world? What would they ask someone from their chosen country? Maybe they’d like to know what a certain food tastes like, what the weather’s like right now, or what their school is like. Was anyone surprised by anything they found out? Are there similarities between life in people’s chosen countries and life in their own country? Do people think it’d be easier to work together with someone from their chosen country now that they know a bit more about it? People could think about how it may be easier to understand them, what they do, and what they believe.

Safety:
Scissors
Supervise young people appropriately when they’re using scissors. Store all sharp objects securely, out of the reach of young people

Rubbish and recycling
All items should be clean and suitable for this activity.

Glue and solvents
Supervise young people appropriately when they’re using glue and solvent products. Make sure there’s plenty of ventilation. Be aware of any medical conditions which could be affected by glue or solvent use and make adjustments as needed.

All activities must be safely managed. Do a risk assessment and take appropriate steps to reduce risk. Always get approval for the activity and have suitable supervision and an InTouch process.

Tags

• Builder
• country facts
• recycling

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