Primary level

Toolkit for the youngest level

Activities and teaching guides

Equality and sex education

• The Week 6 2026 education package features various activities focused on safety and violence for the youngest level.
• The Week 6 2025 education package offers various activities centered on the body and genitals for the youngest level.
• Intersectionality is a teaching booklet published for Children's Human Rights Day.
• Respect for Children's Opinions is a set of teaching guides produced for Children's Human Rights Day.
• 5 Tips for Sexual Health is a staff poster available in multiple languages.

The body

• Safer Touch is a set of teaching guides on talking with children about touch and boundaries.

• 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.

• Safety Card is an activity to help children identify what and who makes them feel safe.

• My Amazing Body is an activity to build a positive body image.

• How Does the Body Work? is an activity and slide presentation covering different parts of the body.

• The Little Monsters and Body Parts is an activity booklet about the body that also practices counting.

• Monsters — Right or Wrong? is a supplementary activity to accompany the booklet.

• Putting a Body Together is a cut-out activity.

• We Come in All Kinds is an activity exploring body parts and descriptive language.

Communication

• Yellow, Red, Green is an activity about communication within groups.

• Feelings — How Are You Doing? is an activity booklet designed to build children's emotional skills.

Queerness

• Am I a Boy or a Girl? is a short story with discussion questions about gender roles and stereotypes.

• "We Are One Family" is an activity that helps children understand different types of families.

• The Genderbread Person is an explanatory illustration clarifying gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, and romantic and sexual orientation.

• The Gender Unicorn is an explanatory illustration depicting gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, and romantic and emotional orientation.

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

• 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.

Books and teaching materials

Sex education

• "Gender, Sex, and Everything Else" is a comprehensive sex education book that includes teaching guides.
• The Miracle That Is Me is sex education material for children covering the body, gender, feelings, and more.

Children's rights

• "Children's Rights in Rainbow Colors" is a UNICEF coloring book.
• A UNICEF puzzle book about children's rights.

Gender roles

• 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.

Queerness

• "My Family" is a reading book highlighting diverse family structures.
• "Askur and the Princess" is a reading book chronicling the unconventional adventure of a boy in traditional costume.
• "Julian Is a Mermaid" is a reading book following a boy who dreams of becoming a mermaid.
• "Be Yourself" is a book celebrating diversity and the importance of embracing your true identity.
• When Rósa Was Ragnar / When Friðrik Was Fríða is a reading book examining gender roles and equality.
• The Princes and the Treasure is a reading book detailing the journey of two princes setting out to rescue a princess.

Gender roles and role models

• 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.
• "I Know" is a video series from Stopp ofbeldi (Stop Violence).

Equality

• "UN Sustainable Development Goals — Gender Equality" is a video from RÚV.
• Better to Speak Than Stay Silent is a UNICEF cybersecurity video.
• "Children Step Forward" is a UNICEF video highlighting children's opinions and rights.

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.

Games

Equality

• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a Kahoot game published by UNICEF.
• Right Runner is an English-language computer game focused on children's rights, published by UNICEF.

Websites

• "Girls' Puberty" is a webpage maintained by nurses.
• Stronger Into Life is an educational website with a range of resources to support children's self-image.