Speech Bubbles
Page Summary
This activity includes asking each child / young person to fill in speech bubbles to complete prepared sentences.
You Will Require
- A sheet with three speech bubbles (you could have more if required)
What To Do
Ask each child / young person to fill in the speech bubbles to complete the sentences, for example
- At church I enjoy …..
- At youth I don’t like …..
Each child / young person can feedback to explain what they have written. Limit their time to allow everyone a chance to feedback.
Identify some of the key speech bubbles that the children / young people agree on and feed these back to the PCC and other stakeholders.
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