What could I do?

Type

Visual, auditory and kinaesthetic.

You can run these activities with just one person, or in a small group.

The activities will take 30-40 minutes.

How hard can it be to help animals?

Firstly, discuss reasons why the young person/group thinks people might want to help animals. What do they get out of it?
Ask them to look at a selection of pictures in turn from the activity sheet What could I do? Discuss what is being done in each picture and how it helps animals. You can select the most appropriate images for your young person - we have provided both male and female versions for some of the actions being portrayed.
Discuss whether they feel that doing this activity would be hard or easy for them, personally, to do. Create a continuum with the words ‘hardest to do’ at one end and ‘easiest to do’ at the other.
Place each picture within the continuum, representing how easy the young person feels it would be for them to do the activity. Talk about the reasons behind their decisions.
Go through the pictures again, and ask the young person/people to say whether they feel the activities would be hard or easy to do if they were in a group. Would being in a group make it harder, easier or would it make no difference? Discuss their reasons and the thinking behind any changes in the level of difficulty.

My choice

Ask the young person to choose between three and five pictures of activities they think they could do quite easily.
Then ask them to write this as a list, with the heading My way of helping animals.
If possible, help the young person to actually do at least some of the items on his or her list and review how they found the experience.