Creating Access and Inclusion in Worship

INVOLVING TEENS IN INCLUSION AWARENESS DAY

Use the ideas below to involve teens in Inclusion Awareness Day.

Sensitivity Training
Set a date for a sensitivity training meeting and invite teens to attend. Use the Guidelines for Ushers and Lay Leaders and How You Can Make a Difference in this workbook to instruct teens on proper disability etiquette. Designate which teens will act as greeters at church doors to distribute prayer cards and as helpers with children?s activities in the social hall.

Prayer Cards
Download the prayer card from www.inclusioninworship.org, photocopy or print on card stock and cut apart. Invite teens to serve as greeters, distributing the prayer cards as they greet parishioners on Inclusion Awareness Day.

Assisting with Materials for Children?s Activities for Inclusion Awareness Day
Ask teens to create paper dolls for children?s doll activity on Inclusion Awareness Day. Use the template and instructions of Page 19 in this workbook.

Assisting with Supervision of Children?s Activities on Inclusion Awareness Day
Explain the paper doll activity and the I Am ?Thumb? Body activity to teens. Ask teens to sign up to help set up the activities, assist the children of the parish in these activities and clean up afterwards.

Cut Out Dolls for Inclusion Awareness Day Paper Doll Activity

Materials: Stiff card stock paper, scissors, ball point pens, paper doll templates, hole punch, yarn

Trace paper doll outline onto white cardstock and cut out one paper doll for each child participating. Punch holes in hands of dolls. Cut lengths of yarn long enough to tie dolls together at the hands.