Activities and Games

In this part you can dowload some activities to work around the topic of visas with kids. Most of the activities were played during the second seminar of OTM about visas. They were tried with a group of around 9 people and that's how the basic explanation is, but you can find how to adapt it for more people in the tips section of the activities.

Hope you enjoy them, have fun and learn something new!

12 Reasons Why

(Visas get rejected)

In this activity we will look at the reasons given by the official authorities why visas get rejected and reflect on the reasons we think are real taking into account the current capitalist system.

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Let’s get a visa!

This session will give an input about how hard it is to get a visa for many people and to show which questions they are asking at an embassy. This session would be extra funny, if you have some people who can speak a language most of the participants can’t speak.

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Population, wealth,

refugees and chairs

In this activity we will take a look at the distribution of population wealth and refugees in the world. The data is from 2015.

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Talk show: Why do

visas make sense?

In this activity we will look at why visas are important for different groups of society and try to look at why we have a system where people need visas to go from one place to another.

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Visa – For what?

At the beginning it is important to understand for what visas are needed in our world, that there is more than a normal tourist visa. This activity is about getting an idea about the differents kinds of visas and to realize through role play.

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Visas minefield

We will look at how unsettling it might be to have to move from one country to another without knowing what is laying ahead.

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What do the embassies

want to know?

Find out with official visa forms what embassies want to know from you, when you are going to visiting these countries.

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