Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Index cards for all participants Optional: One or more sets of the board game, Apples to Apples (five players per set) Preparation for Activity The game, Cloak and Dagger, works best with eight to 15 players. Decide whether the group will play...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story, "Olympia Brown - A Voice and a Vote" Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to tell or read it to the group. Description of Activity Participants will learn about a time in United States history when women did not...

Description of Activity One idea that has caught on is a "Take Your Child to Vote" Day. If you are near an election time, consider the words of Dayton, Ohio, Daily News reporter Scott Eliot, published on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 (Election Day). There's two things I hope you'll do today....

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice candle or LED/battery-operated candle Lighter and extinguisher, if needed Newsprint, markers, and tape Newsprint or chalkboard with participants' tally marks Dark paper, light-colored chalk, and containers for "ballot boxes" Tool of the Day...

Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Optional: A chalkboard and chalk Dark paper, light-colored chalk, and containers for "ballot boxes" Preparation for Activity Prepare and post (or set on worktables) sheets of newsprint where participants can vote for their favorite television...

Take a moment and let your body and mind settle. If you are comfortable doing so, spend a few moments in peaceful meditation. In preparation for this session on democratic process, you may wish to reflect on your own experiences and feelings about voting, consensus-building, and democratic...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Welcoming and Entering Opening 10 Activity 1: Story — Olympia Brown — A Voice and a Vote 10 Activity 2: Cloak and Dagger Game 10 Activity 3: Voting in the Demos Role-Play 10 Activity 4: Consensus Role-Play 10 Activity 5: Council Circle 10 Faith in Action: Ideas...

The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. — Jerome Nathanson (1908-1975), a leader of New York Ethical Culture Democracy means not "I am as good as you are," but...

Many people who feel passionately about injustice in the world speak up about it. Speaking up can take many forms because different people have different ways of expressing themselves.

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Music CDs or tapes, and player Cafeteria trays or large sheets of aluminum foil or glossy paper for all participants Tempera paints or finger paints Optional: Pudding to use as paint, large #10 cans Newspapers for covering worktables Optional: Larg...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Large grocery bags, one for each small group of four or five children For each grocery bag: a kitchen implement, something for the head, something for the feet, something electronic or from a desk, and a toy or silly item Preparation for Activity...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Paper and pencils for writing the words assigned to each group Preparation for Activity Review this activity, Activity 4: Skits in a Bag, and Activity 5: Responding to Music with Paint....

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story, "The Cellist of Sarajevo" Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to tell or read it to the group. Description of Activity Gather participants in a comfortable configuration for listening to a story.

Description of Activity To experience personal expression as a quality of Unitarian Universalist faith, create a Faith in Action project where the children share their own expression with others or appreciate expression made by others. Make and Donate Art Cards Engage the children in making...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice candle or LED/battery-operated candle Lighter and extinguisher, if needed Newsprint, markers, and tape Tool of the Day - a paintbrush Optional: Toolbox of Our Faith poster and clear tape Preparation for Activity Print the opening words on...

Materials for Activity Unruled index cards or small squares of blank paper A variety of materials for doodling, such as colored pencils, markers, watercolors, tempera paint, and brushes or rubber stamps and ink pads Optional: Magazines, scraps of paper, scissors (including left-handed scissors), ...

Take a moment and let your body and mind settle. If you are comfortable doing so, spend a few moments in peaceful meditation. In preparation for this session on expression, reflect on how you personally prefer to express yourself, and ways you might like to try. Take an inventory of your own...

ACTIVITY MINUTES Welcoming and Entering Opening 5 Activity 1: Story — The Cellist of Sarajevo 10 Activity 2: Word Bodies 10 Activity 3: Skits in a Bag 10 Activity 4: Responding to Music with Paint 15 Activity 5: Council Circle 10 Faith in Action: Ideas...

Beauty without expression is boring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The paintbrush symbolizes personal expression of our inner life and thoughts. In this session, participants engage in and reflect on various means of personal expression, such as painting, writing, music, and theater. Allow time for...