Equipment:
- Old magazines
- Scissors,
- Glue,
- Paper,
- Bags (one per person).
Method
- Each person is given a paper bag.
- Look through magazines and cut out pictures that show the YOU that everyone else sees.
- Stick those pictures on the outside of your paper bag.
- Cut out pictures that show the you that you know - your feelings, ambitions, hopes, etc.
- Place these pictures inside your paper bag.
- In pairs or threes, tell each other about your bags - you choose whether or not you'd like to share the pictures inside your bag.
- Some of the things you might choose to talk about are:
- Why did you choose the pictures on and in your bag?
- Are the pictures on the inside of your bags similar to the ones on the utside?
- Why?
- Why not?
- How?
- Are many of our true feelings and hopes kept inside?
- Do we show a different picture of ourselves to others?
- Only to certain people?
When the Guides are trying to work out where there relatives are that live in Australia this is one of the maps we have used