Kids & Families Protest

Any Day Ideas

• Paint slogans on rocks to leave in public places

  • Resistance Rocks - based on the Love Rocks (memorial for loved ones) spread message of hope and call to action.  Theme & Phrase Ideas

• Chalk the Walk, pick a phrase to write on the sidewalk or driveway

• Make a sign to hang in house window

• Wear clothing with protest messages (Etsy great source or make your own)

• Wear a protest button or bracelet.

• Have a toy protest at home; create small signs to add to toys and have a pretend protest march, rally or sit-in in your home.

• Write a letter to a government representative or local official about an issue

• Read together as a family

  • Protest facts for kids - article could be read aloud as family: https://kids.kiddle.co/Protest

  • Read kids books about activism.

    • Brightly: Making Our Voices Heard

    • Titles from Schlow Centre Region Library - or see embedded list below.

• Take kid with you to vote, or have them sit with you when you complete a mail-in ballot

• If you choose to boycott a product or company, involve child in that decision and family implementation. 

Participate in a Protest

• Cut out letters to make signs, or color in outline letters for signs

• Go with parents to get supplies for protests

• Help at a protest - hand out water bottles or snacks to protesters

• Taking kids to a protest; good article at Raising Antiracist Kids

• Watch the live stream of a protest

• Drive by a protest and honk car horn in support, wave, thumbs up