Tag: Fun
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Famous cow drama
Fun animal drama that includes the whole class.
A lively, fun and engaging way to present the story of a family of orphans in Uganda to an assembly or as a whole class activity to another class. The story can be easily followed and is told by a group of farm animals from the UK and can be used to as part of your English curriculum.
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Categories: Assemblies, English/literacy and PSHE/Citizenship
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Cane rats in conservation
Fun ratty lesson and fundraising ideas
You can have lots of fun with this ratty lesson! Cane Rats help to put an end to the hunting of bushmeat in the rainforests of Cameroon by giving families a source of protein and income - removing the need to hunt endangered species such as gorillas and monkeys. The link to the great little animation below can be used to explain the issues involved. The pdf file also includes some interesting fundraising activities if your class want to raise the amount it costs to provide a Cane Rat and training - £32.50 - see our gifts site link below to purchase this ‘gift’.
www.cowforce.com
www.sendacowgifts.org.ukRate and read reviews of Cane rats in conservation
Categories: Fun ideas, Lessons, Geography and PSHE/Citizenship
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Africa day
A whole day learning about and celebrating Africa
A day’s worth of fun activities and ideas for inside and outside the classroom. An Africa day can bring the Global Dimension to the whole school or a whole key stage - educating your pupils about life in different countries. Ideas for Geogrpahy Unit 22 (Passport to the world) are included. Why not book one of our free speakers to come to your school too? Have fun!
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Cowforce Africa quiz
Fun online linked activity to introduce Africa
These short quizzes can be filled out while pupils visit our engaging, award winning website www.cowforce.com. This IT activity will give pupils a fun introduction to life in Africa and the diversity of the continent.
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Categories: Background info, Quick quizzes and Geography
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Cow tourist
Traveling cow meets Barnaby Bear!
A marvelously fun thing to do! Inspire pupils’ imaginations by sending your own furry cow or goat traveller(s) across the world in a jiffy bag. The animal gets to visit lots of places in the world en-route and helps your pupils learn about different locations. This idea is a pro-active version of QCA Unit 5 - Where in the world is Barnaby Bear?
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Categories: Geography and Pink poster
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Cow herder game
Make a moo game for two!
Make your own colourful version of this traditional Sudanese cow herder’s game. It can bring the Global Dimension into Art and is easy to make and fun to play! This game is also played in Lesotho.
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Categories: Art and Pink poster
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Bounceball
Simple but fun playground game
A Rwandan ball game for the playground which Rose from Rwanda plays, much like more traditional forms of play from the UK. It is quite easy to explain, but difficult to do! A good outdoor activity for an Africa day breaktime.
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Categories: Children's stories, Comparing lives, Lesson ideas and worksheets and PE
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Circle game
Fun, small group game from Rwanda
A group game for break times, also called, ‘drop the hanky’, can be used to highlight similarities and differences in forms of play. Rose from Rwanda plays this game, it involves being quick on your feet and being sneaky.
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Categories: Comparing lives, Lesson ideas and worksheets and PE
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Dodgeball
Lively African ball game
This is a popular game in East Africa, game played in many school playgrounds. It involves at least three players and lots of running and dodging. It can be a good way of getting pupils active at breaktime.
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Categories: Blue poster, Comparing lives and PE
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Drop Scotch
Fun hopping game from Lesotho
A variation of Hop-Scotch played in Lesotho by Julia. The game involves shunting a shoe polish tin around a grid as you hop. Not as easy as it sounds, but really good fun! You could have a competition to see who can get to the end.
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Cowpower animation (+Welsh)
Explains how cows can help - in a fun way!
This fun animation from Cowforce.com neatly sums up how a cow can help a poor family. Really useful for an assembly and as an introduction to our work - guaranteed to have your pupils smiling. Turn your sound up to enhance the experience. We have supplied an exe file for PC that opens straight up (over 2MB) or Quicktime files that are smaller and a Welsh option is included here. There is also a Powerpoint file, to allow you to go at your own pace. Have fun!
- COWPOWER_PC.exe
- COWPOWER_QT_PC.mov
- COWPOWER_QT_MAC.mov
- COWPOWER_PC_Welsh.exe
- COWPOWER_QT_PC_Welsh.mov
- CowPower_slides.ppt
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Categories: Animations and Visual aids
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Keyhole garden animation
A fun introduction to special African style gardens
This fun, colourful animation from our kids site, Cowforce.com, explains why special gardens are needed in some places in Africa (like Lesotho) and how they can help a poor family. Really useful for an assembly and as an introduction to our African Gardens work in the UK. Turn your sound up to enhance the experience. We have supplied an exe file for PC that should open straight up (over 2MB) or a Quicktime file that is smaller for PC. Have fun.
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Categories: Animations and Keyhole gardens
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Bag Gardens on Cowforce
Animations and child-friendly information about Bag Gardens
A great way to introduce your kids to African Bag Gardens. On this area of our Cowforce website, we meet Mr Tomato Head, a gameshow host who loves plants! He takes the user through what Bag Gardens are all about in a comic strip, how you can make one in an animation and all about the competition through a clip from the Tomato Head show.
www.cowforce.com/african-gardens
www.sendacow.org.uk/africangardensRate and read reviews of Bag Gardens on Cowforce
Categories: Bag gardens, Animations and Bag gardens
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Miles 4 Moos fundraising
A healthy way to fundraise for Send a Cow
Miles4Moos is a healthy way for schools and groups to help raise funds for Send a Cow. By walking, cycling, running, or even hopping to clock up some miles you can raise funds for livestock gifts from cows to bees. You could link your event to the distances that African children often have to walk to get to school or fetch water. The pack includes a poster, advice leaflet and a sponsor form to photocopy. Find out more on how to run a Miles4Moos event at your school at http://www.miles4moos.org Use the Order and sign up page to request your Miles4Moos fundraising pack.
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Child-led fundraising ideas
Some fun things for your children to do for Send a Cow
There are all sorts of ways that children support Send a Cow, many of them truly unique! Here are a few pointers to get them going - perhaps they could work in small groups and run their fundraising task as a mini-project. Whatever fundraising they choose to do, it should be great fun!
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Categories: Fun ideas
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Cowforce micro-leaflet
Mini leaflet for kids' events
These are very cool and very small leaflets for children, which fold to about credit card size. They are to use at events as a way for children to find out more by going on our kids website Cowforce.com. They come in four colours, each with a different children’s story on the back. Inside there are stickers and a special code which can be entered on a hidden area of the website, allowing them to download some free things, like an Africa map screensaver and desktop wallpapers. You can get some for an event you’re organising by using the Order and sign up page.
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Categories: Leaflets
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Free Cowforce wallpapers
Brighten up your desktop with these cool wallpapers!
We’ve made a series of wallpapers for kids to download on our Cowforce.com website. But we don’t want to let the kids get all the cool stuff, so we’ve got them here for you to download too! Choose from a map of Africa, some Mr Tomato Head themed images and some cow flavoured ones. If you want to see what you’re getting before you download, go to http://www.cowforce.com/free-stuff or simply click on the files below (choose your screen resolution 800x600 small or 1024x768 big), then right click over the image and ‘Set as desktop background’. Easy peasy!
- Cowforce_wallpaper_map_800.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_map_1024.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_MTH_800.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_MTH_1024.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_cowpats_800.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_cowpats_1024.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_garden_800.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_garden_1024.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_HED_800.jpg
- Cowforce_wallpaper_HED_1024.jpg
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Categories: Cool stuff
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Send an Ecard!
African animal ecards to send to a friend
You can use our swanky African animal Ecards to send a message to a friend. They were designed for kids to use, but don’t let that stop you. Sending one of our Ecards is not only free, it helps to spread the word about our work!
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Categories: Cool stuff
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Cane rats conservation animation
Educational animation exploring viewpoints about bushmeat
A simple animation exploring this important conservation issue. The factors around the trade in bushmeat are neatly summed up in this piece - also see the pdf for some fun lesson ideas. You can use these resources with pupils to explore different viewpoints and to role play the cartoon characters. Our response to the issue is to provide poor families with Cane Rats (also known as Grasscutters), which can be found in our online gift catalogue. To find out more, click on the links below. . .
www.cowforce.com
www.sendacowgifts.org.ukRate and read reviews of Cane rats conservation animation
Categories: Animations and Geography
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Four African tales - animations
Fun animations that help to explain our work
These delightful, short animations, called ‘Four African Tales’ give an easy to follow explanation of some of Send a Cow’s work in Africa. They are ideal for use in an assembly and on an interactive whiteboard and they’re created to educate and bring a smile to children’s faces as they find out how we go about helping poor families get out of poverty.
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Categories: Animations and Visual aids
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Free Africa map screensaver
Learn your African countries while you relax
This cool screensaver will help you and your pupils learn where African countries are during quiet moments in your classroom. It was created for kids to download from the Cowforce website - but why should they get all the best stuff? Click on the file and unzip, the rest should be easy.
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Categories: Cool stuff and Geography
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Sign our Guestmap and share ideas
Place a pin and encourage others!
We have created a Guestmap so that visitors to our site can leave their mark on a map of the UK. You can also leave some good advice for others and join the Send a Cow community by ‘passing on’ what you’ve done. So, please place a pin, have a look around and read people’s entries by clicking on the map to the right.
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Colouring in Cowpower sheet
Something for younger children about Send a Cow
If you are supporting Send a Cow in some way, or running an event, this sheet will give children something fun to colour in and take home. It is taken from the CowPower animation and very simply sums up how a cow can help a family in Africa. A PowerPoint file of the animation is included too.
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Categories: Art, Lesson ideas and worksheets and Visual aids
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Make an African plastic bag football
A photo guide to make a recycled ball
These sheets will help your pupils to make a football out of recycled materials - 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. But it’s also simply a really fun thing to do with your class, and could prompt you to organise your own mini-African tournament - with pupils learning about different countries along the way.
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Free stickers
Order some stickers for your kids
We have four different types of sticker sheets that you can order for your class, group or event if you are supporting Send a Cow in some way. They have been tested on kids… and they love them!
The ‘T1’ sheet has enough stickers for a class of 30.
The ‘T2’ is reward sheet with fun graphics such as ‘eggcellent work’.
The ‘K1’ sheet has small and large round stickers - good for groups.
And the ‘K2’ sheet is our cool Cowforce sheet with lots of different designs on it.
You can order several of these sheets and other materials for free, using the Order and sign up page.
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Categories: Stickers
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Colouring in bookmarks
Fun for kids and great for books
These bookmarks are designed for kids to colour in, front and back. They feature five different animals that Send a Cow provide and could be used for your class, group or event - with the obvious benefit of encouraging them to read more. They are also printed on recycled paper, which is easier to colour on. So, help your children find out about our work and prompt them to read, by ordering some for free using the Order and sign up page.
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Categories: Bookmarks
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Mokou - the stone game
A fun outdoor Lesothan game
A 5-a-side game for break times that is played in Lesotho. Mokou involves being quick on your feet and working as a team - requiring only some stones and a recycled plastic bag ball to play. Playing African games like this can be a great way of teaching how to have fun outdoors using local materials.
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Categories: PE
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