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Description

Have a look around your neighbourhood, find out what makes it nice and what could be improve, and start thinking about how you can make it better with small actions.

Resources

For this activity you will need:

-Big pieces of paper
-Markers
-Stickers to mark the nice places and the places to improve

Instructions

In groups of three, Scouts walk around the neighbourhood, or in a small park or the yard of their meeting place for younger sections. Their task will be to draw a map of the place. They need to draw the map, but also add the different features of the neighbourhood, such as playgrounds, public transports, a park, benches, bins, roads, if there is a park, etc.

When they are done drawing the maps, they will need to mark different places:

-The places that they really like, the places that feel nice and welcoming
-The places that they like less, that are less welcoming
In a wider group discussion, they talk about what makes those different places nice or not.

Going back in their small group, they need to find ideas to make the “less nice” places nicer, more like the places that they like. Their leaders encourage them to think about all kinds of solutions:

Very small things that anyone can easily do so those places are just a little bit nicer
The bigger ideas like “build a whole new neighbourhood”.
Any idea for a solution is a good idea, no matter how small or how big it is.

Tags

• community
• local community
• low cost
• mapping
• navigation
• Neighbourhood
• Team work

Badge Links

• Community Impact - Identify
• Local Knowledge - Local knowledge
• Local Knowledge - Map
• Navigator - Draw map
• Teamwork - Challenge
• Teamwork - Team-building
• Teamwork - Team-building
• World - Help
• World - Project