Play It Right Toolkit: Preparing Canadian Children to Engage in a Multicultural Society

The Play It Right Toolkit is an educational toolkit for use in summer camps to promote human rights and respect for diversity. The interactive educational materials contain activities and games specifically designed for use with children outside the formal classroom setting. The toolkit is designed to be user-friendly and includes ideas for games and activities as well as instructions for their use. It focuses on a rights-based approach to anti-discrimination and intends to equip the staff of the camps with the knowledge and skills to promote the values of human rights, inclusion, and cultural harmony in the activities they organise with campers aged 6-12 years old.

The components are:

• A User’s Guide containing: 1) objectives and human rights concepts, values, and principles; 2) instructions on how to use the toolkit; 3) a description of children’s psychosocial and motor development characteristics; 4) four practical “how to” aids for: conflict prevention and resolution; ending name-calling; establishing rules of behaviour; carrying out reflection activities after a game.
  
• 41 educational games and activities.
• An index listing games according to age group and values promoted.
• Three sample schedules on how to integrate toolkit activities into a weekly camp programme.
• A Resource Guide with information to complement the toolkit.
  

It includes orientation guides for counsellors and coordinators, 3 training of trainers manuals, and a presentation in MS PowerPoint format, as well as additional new games for 2007.