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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 in the Summer Term!
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African recipes
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. Types of food eaten across Africa varies greatly and is partly dependant 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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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
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.
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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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