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Media Collage

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Media Collage

Families create a collage representing their everyday media use at home

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Overview

  • Target group:
    Parents, Children
  • Group size:
    Flexible
  • Duration:
    1–1.5 h
  • Materials:
    • Magazines
    • Newspapers
    • Glue
    • Scissors
    • Paper
    • Printed media symbols (optional)

Goal

Encourage families to reflect on their media habits and visualize how media is present in their daily life. Strengthens communication between home and kindergarten.

Steps

1

Introduce the activity during a parent-teacher meeting or via newsletter.

2

Ask families to create a media collage at home over the next week (e.g., TV time, radio, books, podcasts, news, streaming, video games, educational games, etc.).

3

Invite families to present their collage in the kindergarten (as part of an exhibition or informal gathering).

4

Use the collages as a starting point to talk about media habits, screen time, and family preferences.

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