Use this template to design your own shield. You can draw, colour, and add words to show the rights that are most important to you.

Children’s Rights and International Day of Happiness: Activities
This Happiness Activities Sheet was created to go alongside our special Happiness Assembly, held on UN International Day of Happiness. Thousands of children across Scotland joined Children’s Commissioner Nicola Killean and Young Advisor Saif for a joyful, laughter-filled celebration of happiness and human rights.

Explorers: Rights Challenge Badge Resource Pack
The Rights Challenge Badge helps Explorers learn more about their human rights, and the rights of other young people. Explorers – who are aged between 14 and 18 – can do a range of activities to earn the badge. These include creating a communications project around human rights, campaigning for a change in their community, and learning and sharing information about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Scouts Resource Pack: Rights Challenge Badge
The Rights Challenge Badge – the logo of which was designed by Scout Christopher, ten, from Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire – features a range of activities and resources to empower Cubs, Scouts, Beavers and Squirrels aged between 4 and 14 to learn about and understand their rights. It promotes adult leaders’ awareness of children’s rights too.
The badge is available for more than 20,000 Cubs and Scouts to complete. There is a separate version for Scouts with activities suited for that age group and another version for the younger Beavers and Squirrels.

Activity: Writing rights poems
March 2021. Children have the right to express themselves, and you can use this resource to help them do that and create an acrostic poem about their human rights.

The power to change things: Lightning bolt activity
March 2021. UNCRC Incorporation gives children the power to change things! This workshop can help them think about the change that they’d like to see.
Download a version of the worksheet for black and white print.

Rights word search 1
March 2021. A rights-based word search for children to use as part of a session or lesson around human rights.

Rights word search 2
March 2021. A rights-based word search for children to use as part of a session or lesson around human rights.
