Vision Boards/Dream Boards

These can be a lovely activity that children or parents can do to help you understand their hopes for the future, and to think about setting goals during COVID. These can be done either using pictures from magazines stuck onto paper and shared with you during a video call, or can be done electronically (cut and paste images onto a word document which could be emailed to you). 

More information about Vision Boards here, including some starter questions that you can use with families. 

https://lebrickfamily.com/21-vision-board-questions-for-kids/ 

Scaling Questions

Using a scale of 1-10 can be helpful in a wide range of situations, for example to help and parent or child think about their preferred future and how they might get there.

You can use physical activities (that can be done in the home or in an open space) to help a child, young person or parent to visualise scaling for example using a staircase, or the length of a room (one end of the room is 1 on the scale, the other end is 10 on the scale).

Lots of scaling questions information and resources on pages 333-345 of this document, and an example below:

https://proceduresonline.com/trixcms/media/4291/directworkresourcepack-tower-hamlets.pdf 

Exploding Books! 

This is a practical activity for a child or family to do (there is a little instruction video to watch) which you could do alongside them on a video call. Could be a visual way to help build a story of the future, or tell a life story, or to describe a childs ideal day. 

Heres a link to the tutorial video

https://joyfuldaisy.com/make-exploding-book/