Open ended role play scenarios Activity 3

1 You are an old lady who has lived in the neighbourhood most of your life. Recently, a group of ten-year-olds have started to play in front of your house in the evenings. It gets very noisy and they leave a lot of litter. Act out the scene and decide what happens next.

2 You are a parent. Your only son is 15 and you know that he has been mixing with the wrong crowd. You think they meet in the playground. The neighbours have been complaining that the playground has a lot of litter and graffiti. Act out a scene between you and your son and decide how you are going to stop him meeting in the playground in the evenings.

3 You belong to your local village council and you spend a lot of time organising things for the community and helping the elderly. You have noticed that local teenagers are hanging around the village hall, dropping litter and vandalising trees. Act out the scene and decide how you and the village council can stop this from happening.

4 A group of you meet at the local playing field most evenings. Lots of your friends drop litter and are quite noisy. Some of them have decided to write things on the door and walls of the playing field changing rooms. You enjoy meeting your friends but you know this is wrong. Act out the scene and decide how you will stop them from damaging the playing fields.

5 You go to buy something in the local corner shop. As you turn the corner you see a group of teenagers hanging around outside. You try to get past but they don’t move. Some of them start to shout at you. Act out the scene and decide what you would do next.

6 You are out walking your dog and you see some teenagers painting graffiti in the children’s playground. Act out the scene and decide what you would do next