Let’s create to inspire children’s suffrage
Please join me in sharing ideas about kids voting, in creative ways, wherever you happen to be, whenever inspiration comes to you. It can be fun! Keep records of your efforts, and share those, too! I’d love to see them and share them more widely. :)
“Let Kids Vote,” I wrote, by hand in sand, at ‘Chicken Park’ in Cambridge, MA, late afternoon on a cold Fall day in 2020. Who might have seen this? Did they wonder about it? As you can hear, I wonder about them!
“Kids Want Ballots,” I wrote on a white takeout bag using potato french fries from Clover restaurant.
“Kids Want Vote,” I squirted from the ketchup bottle onto the white plate.
To the tune of “Row, Row Your Boat”
by Robin Chen, with feedback from JeffJam
Vote, vote, cast your vote
Choose who will represent!
But if they won’t allow you — yet,
Shout loudly, “I dissent!”
What would william carlos williams think?
by Robin Chen
so much depends
upon
a black felt-tip
pen
behind a patriotic
curtain
in the hand of a
child
Can you create a 'zine’?
Dorothy Cresswell was inspired to write this bonus ‘children’s suffrage’ verse for her catchy song, “They’ve Done It Again”
Together
𝄃 ♪ You’ll help me and I’ll help you, ♪
and we’ll help democracy together. ♫
Thank you friends, mentors, partners, allies: your support is vital!
Please offer suggestions — about speaking with individuals or groups; applying for grants or fellowships; composing music, books, jokes, games, puppetry, what-have-you.
Donations are gratefully received.
Honest, insightful feedback brings improvements.
♪ You’ll help me and I’ll help you, ♪
in warm or wintry weather. ♫ 𝄂
What are you curious about?
What makes you hesitant?
Imagine
If only kids could vote…
How might children’s suffrage change your life or your community for the better?
**Not only kids would vote if kids could vote. We’d expect people to begin voting whenever they became interested and we’d expect them to develop the habit throughout their lifetime.