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Ask if anyone can name any of the plants, or identify their colour or smell.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAsk everyone to gather together different coloured natural items, such as fallen leaves, petals, feathers, pebbles or sticks, as they can. Ask everyone to put all the leaves and natural items they\u2019ve collected in the middle.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIf you\u2019re taking natural items along to the meeting place, put a mixture of different objects on each table for each group to look at, name, smell and discuss. The groups could move round every few minutes to give everyone a chance to see everything.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAs a group, chat about what you\u2019ve found, using the following questions as prompts:\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ol\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli style=\u0022list-style-type: none;\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cul style=\u0022list-style-type: circle;\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWhat do you think is the same about all these items? 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They\u2019re all slightly different. However, there are some things that are same too. For example, our families should all be people who make us who help us feel happy, who all love each other, and who help us to be healthy and safe.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAsk everyone to think of one reason why it\u0027s good that all families are different. Someone might say that it\u0027d be a bit boring if everyone\u2019s family were the same.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAsk everyone to think of one thing that makes them proud of each person they live with.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EExplain that we need to be accepting, caring and respectful to people or families who may be different to ourselves or different to own families. This helps everyone to feel happy, proud of themselves and accepted. It helps to make the world a better place.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETell everyone that some families have two mums or two dads.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EExplain that some families that have two mums or two dads use rainbows to celebrate to show that they\u0027re proud of their family. This is because in the past, and still today, some people treat families that have two mums or two dads unfairly and unkindly.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETell everyone that we can show that we support to families that have two mums or two dads. We can show that we accept them and that we\u2019re proud of them too by choosing to display the rainbow symbol.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ENow, use the natural items to make a rainbow.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAsk if anyone has have heard of something called Pride month. It\u2019s a time when you might see lots of Rainbows. June is Pride month, and is the time of year when people celebrate families that they have two mums or two dads. 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