Preschool
The Gender Equality Academy's preschool toolkit includes a variety of educational materials, activities, icebreakers, videos, books, and more for school staff and children's immediate family to use in the classroom or at home.
The Gender Equality Academy's toolkits are designed to advance Reykjavík City's Education Policy and draw on UNESCO's framework for comprehensive sex education.
Preschool level toolkit
Activities and teaching guides
Equality and sex education
- The Week 6 2026 education package includes a variety of activities on safety and violence for preschool children.
- The Week 6 2025 education package includes a variety of activities on the body and genitals for preschool children.
- Equality Work — A Handbook for Preschools is a staff guide covering the role of preschools and the key priorities in equality work with children.
- Respect for Children's Opinions is a set of teaching guides produced for Children's Human Rights Day.
- Intersectionality is a teaching booklet published for Children's Human Rights Day.
- 5 Tips for Sexual Health is a staff poster available in multiple languages.
The body
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Safer Touch is a set of teaching guides on talking with children about touch and boundaries.
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Safe or Unsafe? is a set of cut-out images depicting different types of touch, designed to help children distinguish between safe and unsafe contact.
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Safety Card is an activity to help children identify what and who makes them feel safe.
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My Amazing Body is an activity to build a positive body image.
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How Does the Body Work? is an activity and slide presentation covering different parts of the body.
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The Little Monsters and Body Parts is an activity booklet about the body that also practices counting.
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Monsters — Right or Wrong? is a supplementary activity to accompany the booklet.
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Putting a Body Together is a cut-out activity.
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We Come in All Kinds is an activity exploring body parts and descriptive language.
Communication
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Yellow, Red, Green is an activity about communication within groups.
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Feelings — How Are You Doing? is an activity booklet designed to build children's emotional skills.
Diversity
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Am I a Boy or a Girl? is a short story with discussion questions about gender roles and stereotypes.
Inclusion and multiculturalism
- Home Language — Language Weeks is an activity that introduces children to each other's backgrounds.
- Home Culture is an activity that encourages children to share their cultures with one another.
- Story Bag is an activity designed to strengthen the connection between foreign-born parents and the preschool.
Pornography
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Talking to Children About Pornography is a staff guide on how best to approach conversations about pornography with young children if the topic comes up.
Coloring and reading books
Sex education
- My Body, Their Body is a coloring book about touch and boundaries.
- The Miracle That Is Me is sex education material for children covering the body, gender, feelings, and more.
Gender roles and role models
- Super Soft Heroes is a coloring book in which traditional heroes step into new roles.
- Super Strong Princesses is a coloring book in which traditional princesses step into new roles.
- The Courageous Hero is a reading book about a prince with old-fashioned ideas about gender who learns to find his footing in a new world.
- I Dare! I Can! I Want! is a reading book about the women's rights movement in Iceland.
- Wonderfully Extraordinary Women Who Changed the World is a reading book about women who made their mark.
- Sipp, Sippsippanipp and Sippsippanippsippsúrumsipp is a reading book about young princesses making their way in the world.
- Vigdís: The book about the first female president introduces a new generation to Vigdís Finnbogadóttir.
Online courses and cartoons
Sex education
- From Taboo to Trust — Sex Education for Young Children is the first part of an online course for staff and parents.
- From Taboo to Trust — Children's Sexual Behavior is the second part of an online course for staff and parents.
- From Taboo to Trust — Tips for Effective Education is the third part of an online course for staff and parents.
- From Taboo to Trust — Educational Materials and Tools is the fourth part of an online course for staff and parents.
- From Taboo to Trust — Sexual Abuse of Children is the fifth and final part of an online course for staff and parents.
LGBT+ story characters
- The Bravest Knight is an illustrated story about a knight who goes on various adventures.
- Rósalín is an illustrated story about a young woman who forges her own path.
Websites
- My Body Belongs to Me is educational material for the youngest level from Stopp ofbeldi.
- Stronger Into Life is an educational website with a range of resources to support children's self-image.
- Hello World is teaching material covering a variety of topics related to children's identity and social interaction.