What you need to do
Choose and do five of the following
- Make a scrapbook about your own culture. Include details that might be of interest to someone from a
different country, such as:
- your national anthem
- the meaning of one of your names
- information about your faith or religion
- a picture of your national flag
- a picture of someone in your national dress
- your family's or town's coat of arms
- your national emblem
- a recipe for a national dish
- information about a national or patron saint
- Keep a record of the food that you eat during one week, such as:
- the country or part of the world where you would expect to eat that food
- details from the packaging about where the ingredients come from
Point out these different places on a map of the world
- From magazines, newspapers and websites, collect pictures that show girls and women around the world at work, school and relaxing. Include pictures from your own country
- Make a decoration or craft from another country, for example Mexican God's eye, Danish heart, Swedish dove or Rangoli patterns
- Listen to or read a story from another country. Act it out with your Six for the rest of the Pack
- Decorate an egg in the style of an Eastern European Easter egg
- Make some food from a culture other than your own that is eaten at a festival time, such as Saint Nicholas' biscuits eaten in Scandinavia at Christmas or Jewish New Year honey cake
- With other Brownies pan and take part in a Japanese doll festival, or a Chinese New Year celebration
- Either
Make a mask of an animal from another part of the world
Or
Make a mask to represent a custom or tradition from a culture other than your own
- Find out about jewellery worn around the world. Make earrings or a necklace from natural materials, or use modelling clay to simulate bone or teeth
- Make a scrapbook about different clothes and costumes worn around the world. This could include pictures, costume dolls or clothes
- Either
Play a singing game from another country
Or
Make a musical instrument from another country
- Make a model of a house from another country. Find out what it would be built from
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