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Make an African plastic bag football
Hold an 'African Footy' tournament!
These sheets give step-by-step instructions to help your pupils make these ‘recycled’ footballs - just like thousands of children in African countries. It’s a great activity to link to a recycling project and can be used to discuss the uses of waste materials in the UK - it’s also a really fun thing to do with your class!
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African recipes - including chapatis for Shrove Tuesday
Simple but tasty African dishes to try out
These recipes will spice up your learning about African countries and have been chosen as most are fairly easy to make. The first is for chapatis, and along with Mandazi, are a great alternative on pancake day. Types of food eaten across Africa varies greatly and is partly dependent on access to different ingredients. Often poor families will have to survive on a diet of beans and rice, but when money starts coming into a household and more food is grown, children’s diets become more varied, healthy. . . and tasty! Use the food images gallery to set the scene before you get cooking.
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How to recycle a plastic bottle into a toy
Dennis from Uganda re-uses a drinks bottle to make a car
This short video shows how ‘waste’ can be re-used and made into toys like this plastic bottle car. It is typical for young boys like Dennis from Uganda to make their own toys out of recycled materials such as bottles, tyres and plastic bagsas as there often is little money to buy them. Use of locally available resources is one of Send a Cow’s principles as it creates uses out of things that are often seen as waste. Why not have a competition in your class to see who can make the best car; send a picture in to us (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))and we can put the best up on our website. If you don’t have access to Vimeo.com at school, register for an account on their website at home and then you can download all our videos using the link on the bottom right of each video page.
Make a toy car from a plastic bottle from Send a Cow on Vimeo.
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Plastic bottle re-use & recycling ideas from Africa - Video
Lorna from Uganda shows various uses for plastic drinks bottles
Lorna from Uganda shows how they re-use plastic drinks bottles on their small rural farm in Kumi. From solar lights to drip irrigation, the bottles make themselves very useful in all aspects of life. Use of locally available resources is one of Send a Cow’s principles as it creates uses out of things that are often seen as waste. Watch the video (or use the Powerpoint below) with your class and why not have a design competition for the most ingenious uses for bottles. Then send them in to us (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) and we will put the best ones on our website! If you don’t have access to Vimeo.com at school, register for an account on their website at home and then you can download all our videos using the link on the bottom right of each video page.
14 African uses for plastic bottles from Send a Cow on Vimeo.
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Harvest Pumpkin Soup lesson
Make a tasty soup... learn about food and harvest
This practical lesson will help pupils to think about harvest in the UK and African countries through making a tasty soup and looking at the ingredients in a sorting activity. Through talking around the themes of this lesson it is possible to highlight the work of charities in helping African families to have better harvests each year. The harvests that we often take for granted in the UK can literally be life-changing for many African families who grow most of the food that they eat.
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Make an Energy-saving Stove
Simple mud stove design that saves wood
These stoves are used in Send a Cow training in African countries as they use less wood and take smoke away from the cook. They are also a great idea for a design project for older pupils. You can make them over the period of a few days, depending on the weather, and with a bit of supervision they can be cooking their own food on it within a week! You could also set pupils the task of designing their own versions of the stove using various different materials.
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How to make a Tip Tap handwasher - with video clip
Easy to make African tap for a school garden
A fun, practical challenge for pupils. They can get into groups and make their own version of this simple water conserving/hygiene device used in Africa. A great addition to your school garden and they work well next to Bag or Keyhole gardens. Links can easily be made to the DT curriculum (eg Moving toys). You can also enter the ‘Best Tip-Tap’ category in our African Gardens Competition by using the entry form contained in our kits. If you don’t have access to Vimeo.com at school, register for an account on their website at home and then you can download all our videos using the link on the bottom right of each video page.
How to make a Tip-Tap from Send a Cow on Vimeo.
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African snack
Fast food - African style
An easy and tasty way to introduce global food issues to your class, possibly as part of an Africa day. Includes ideas for extension and further learning; could be adapted for the QCA Unit 3B - Sandwich snacks.
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