Red and Green Frames

To complete this activity, first print off a red and green frame, or you can make one out of cardboard and paint (one side red, the other side green)! If you print one off, be sure to cut around the frame so that you don’t have any white showing and so you can see through the middle of it.

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Your assignment is to take a 30 minute walk through your city or neighborhood and notice how child-friendly (or not!) it is. As you walk, your job is to notice things that you like and things you don’t like. Using the green frame, frame things that you like and as you do so, take a photo. Your photo will want to capture both the object and the frame. Repeat with the red frame for things that you don’t like. 

Try to find 10 things that you love about your city or neighborhood and several things that you don’t. When you complete your walk, spend 5 minutes reflecting on your photos.

What are your favorite images? Why? Did they have anything in common? Would you qualify any as child, youth and family-friendly? Repeat the exercise with the images you captured in red. Why did you select them? Were there any themes? What did this exercise say about you as a person?

Here are some examples from Boulder, CO: 

We love tubing down the Boulder Creek!
	We do NOT like trash!
We like it when bus fares are displayed at kids’ level!

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When you have finished your walk, upload a picture of ONE of the things you LOVE about your city (in a green frame!) and ONE of the things you DON’T love about your city (red frame). 

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NOTE: You can find a copy of the Red and Green Frames activity in your GUB CFC Participant Your Templates Google Folder!