November 2023

The theme for this year's Islamophobia Awareness Month is #MuslimStories. It's about connecting people from diverse backgrounds using storytelling. 

Activities to try:

• Explore differential treatment in Equity spaghetti
• Do some activities to learn about Islam
• Create Faith feathers

Day of the Dead is a lively and colourful festival, which celebrates life. It's celebrated in Latin American communities across the world and particularly in Mexico.

Activities to try:

• Dutch oven enchiladas
• Make sugar skull cookies 
• Make Papel picado bunting

In the UK, Bonfire Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Night, is the anniversary of a failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605.

Activities to try:

• Create colourful art with Fireworks with a flick
• Have a go at light painting
• Be prepared with fire safety charades.

UK Parliament Week aims to inspire and engage your people's interest in parliament, politics and democracy.

Activities to try:

• Organise your own Question Time
• Vote to Elect Sixers and Seconders

Origami Day is an opportunity to celebrate the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. What can you create with a piece of paper?

Activities to try:

• Fold a Scout uniform with To foldly go.
• Make a feel good chatterbox.
• Use folded paper tiles to play a game of Ddakji.

Every 11 November is Armistice Day, often known as Remembrance Day. Remembrance honours people who serve to defend our democratic freedoms and way of life.

Activities to try:

• Stained glass poppies
• Make a paracord poppy
• Paint a poppy on a pebble
• Do some Wartime weaving

Diwali, also known as Deepavali, is a festival of lights. It's celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists across the world.

Activities to try: 

• Make your own Diya 
• Create rangoli flowers 
• Create colourful art with Fireworks with a flick

Inter Faith Week is all about exploring different religions, faiths and beliefs. 

Badges to try:

• Squirrels Let's Celebrate Activity Badge
• Beavers Faith Activity Badge
• Cubs World Faiths Activity Badge
• Scouts World Faiths Activity Badge

Whether it's a compliment or a smile, help to spread kindness in every community on World Kindness Day.

Activities to try:

• Paint Kindness rocks
• Create Cards that care
• Plant a kindness geocache

This year's Anti-Bullying Week is about making a noise about bullying. It starts with Odd Socks Day on 13 November, when people wear odd socks to celebrate how we're all unique.

Activities to try: 

• Play our game, It's just banter
• Boost confidence with Kindness jars
• Learn about differential treatment in Equity spaghetti

World Children's Day is all about children's rights and young people taking action on issues that matter to them. 

Activities to try:

• Play Know your rights
• Hold a child-friendly space event
• Do the Community Impact Staged Activity Badge

The UK's biggest annual tree celebration, National Tree Week, marking the start of the winter tree planting season.

Activities to try:

• Get to know trees with I know yew
• Tune into your senses with Meet a tree
• Grow your own tree

Celebrating their patron saint, St Andrew's Day has been a popular festival in Scotland for over a thousand years. 

Activities to try:

• Learn some Scottish Gaelic
• Bake some tasty Scottish treats
• Play a game of Haggis hunt
• Try Homemade Highland games

The largest annual gathering on climate change. This year's event, known as COP 28, will be held in Dubai.

Activities to try:

• Explore the effect of habitat loss in this Habitat hunt game
• Play Web of life to explore biodiversity
• Make homemade seed bombs in Flower power