Are you a budding photographer? Are you an arty smarty or a cookery whizz?? Choose your favourite topic from these pages and have fun!
You'll find yummy recipes to try, fun things to make, and our fabulous regular competition spot.
And what we are sure is going to be OUR favourite spot is meeting YOU! We want to see exactly what our Little Angels look like, so why not send us your picture of you making those Angel cakes, or scaring your young brother with your African mask? Just upload your photo and we will feature you in our slideshow... and you may win a special prize! (Just remember to get permission from your parents/carer first).
BAKE IT
ANGEL CAKES
This month we are making ANGEL CAKES!
INGREDIENTS
125g soft margarine
125g caster sugar
125g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 large eggs
1 tsp natural vanilla extract or cinnamon or ground mixed spice
For the icing: ?250g icing sugar ?3 tbsp fruit juice or water ?edible food colouring ?sweets or tubes of writing icing, to decorate ?assorted sweets
PREPARATION:
1. Ask an adult to preheat the oven to 190C/375F/gas mark 5 and chop the fruit into small pieces with a knife on the chopping board. Wash your hands, then put the paper cases in the bun trays.
2. Put the margarine and sugar in a large bowl. Sift in the flour and baking powder. Break in the eggs and add the vanilla extract, cinnamon or ground mixed spice.
3. Beat with a wooden spoon until evenly mixed? The mixture should fall easily off the spoon when lightly tapped against the side of the bowl.
4. Stir the fruit into the cake mixture, and spoon into the cake cases, using a teaspoon. Ask an adult to place them towards the centre of the oven for 18-20 minutes until risen, golden and springy to the touch.
5. Ask an adult to remove trays from the oven. Cool slightly, then lift out with a palette knife. Transfer to a cooling rack until cold.
6. To decorate, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add the fruit juice or water a little at a time. Mix to a thick icing. Add food colouring, or leave half of the icing white and colour the remaining half.
7. Spoon a little icing onto each cake and spread with a knife. Leave to set. Decorate by sticking on sweets or even draw a picture of an Angel with icing. Email us your recipes! info@globalangels.org
MAKE IT
AFRICAN MASK
Africa is a land with many different tribes, and many villages and communites scattered amongst each other. While they all have different beliefs and ways of life, many believe that masks hold a magical power!
African masks are sometimes worn at special ceremonies, when the villagers will come together to sing and dance, sometimes asking to be blessed with a good harvest, or perhaps more rain. Some of them are made to look like animals, and sometimes they are a little scary, like a fierce warrior!
Why not have a go at making your own mask? It's great fun, and all you need is some card (you can use the inside of a cereal box ) glue, poster paint, and anything you like to stick on for decoration - rafia, straws, bottle tops, feathers - just use your imagination and be creative! Here's some WE made!
First we folded a piece of card in half
Then cut out a face shape!
Next we painted on a pattern like a tribal design..
We used matchsticks for hair!
And colourful feathers!
Our finished masks!
Scary!!! Send us some pictures of YOUR African Masks info@globalangels.org
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YOUR PHOTOS
We’d really love you to send us your pictures! Maybe you’ve been away to our focus country of the month or maybe you’ve held an event and raised money for Little Angels or maybe you’ve been busy making our fab Masks or baking our Angel Cakes! If so, we’d really like to see your finished results. info@globalangels.org
A-Z OF FUNDRAISING
TRY IT!
A to Z of Fundraising ideas!
Need to get your brain cells going for an idea of how to raise money? Why not get together with a group of schoolmates or friends and host your own event, or even get your Mum and Dad to help you... check our list for some fun ideas, and let us know of any you can think of that we missed.
A
Abseil - a group of people could abseil down a local building
Aerobics - sponsored marathon/competition
Arts or crafts stall
Auctions
B
Bad Hair/Tie day
Baked Beans Bath
Barbecue
Barn Dance
Bits and Pieces - music quiz
BMX Bike Display/Competition
Book/Comic sale
Boot Sale
Bouncy Castle - it could be a sponsored event, eg number of bounces per minute
Bring and Buy Sale
C
Cabarets/Talent shows
Car Boot Sale
Car Washing - in schools grounds
Card Delivery Service - pupils pay for delivery within the school
Carol Singing
Charity Shop - open one lunchtime a week selling donated items in your school?
Christmas Cards - making and selling them, or selling bought cards
Class Collections
Coffee Mornings
Collections of other things - eg waste paper, bottle tops, coins, stamps
Competitions
Computer Games Knockout - best if played in pairs
Concerts/Recitals/Plays/Shows
Cook Books - writing a class or school cookbook that can then be sold
Cookery Contest - eg Ready Steady Cook - could be the teachers!
D
Dance Marathon
Disco
Dry Cornflakes/Cream Cracker eating contest
E
Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Party
Egg Rolling Competition
F
Face Painting
Fairs, Fetes, Bazaars, etc
Fancy Dres Party/Day
Fashion Show - with clothes made by pupils or donated by local shops
Film Show/Premiere
Fireworks Party - adults to organise
Flower/Fruit/Vegetable Show/Sale/Display/Stall
Foam Party - fill paddling or swimming pool with foam and then party!
Football Tournament
G
Game Shows - eg Stars In Their Eyes, Wheel of Fortune, Blockbusters, Blind Date etc
Gigs- local bands play in school
Gladiators/Gladifakers
Gymkhana
H
Hair Beading/Plaiting
Halloween Party
Hotdog/Burger stand
I
It's a Knockout Competition
J
Judo Competition or Display (adults to organise)
Jumble Sale
K
Karaoke Competition/display (adults to organise)
Kite Flying
L
Line Dancing
Longest Chain of paper-clips, line of coins, etc
Lottery - can be Chocco Lotto where numbers are put onto sweet packets
M
Man O Man (or Teacher O Teacher)
Marathon Events - table tennis, aerobics, line dancing, badminton, etc (in shift teams)
Midsummer Masked Ball
Midnight Film Shows/Parties
Mufti/Non-uniform/Denim/Tracksuit/etc
Murder Mystery Evening
N
New Year's Eve Dance/Party
Night-time Hide and Seek - using torches
No Work Day - students choose what they want to do
O
One Hundred Club - raising £100 every week, half term or term, or a fundraising club with 100 members in it
P
Pancake Day/Race/Ccompetition
Panel Games
Parties - school birthday/anniversary, etc
Penalty Shoot-out Competition
Penny Mile - where coins are lined up and measured - can be done in teams
Pet Show
Photographic Competitions
Pram Push
Saints' Days/Parties/Theme day
Santa's Grotto
School Fair
Scoff-a-Hotdog Competition - eg 'who can eat two in the fastest time possible'!
Shakespeare Marathon
Silly Games Afternoons - egg & spoon, silly races, wet sponge throwing, etc
Skateboard Display
Slide Evening
Soap Episodes Show/Theme day
Sponsored Events - eg bike ride, dog walk, knit, kite-flying, headshave, haircut, hula-hooping, rapping, run, shoe-clean, silence, sing, sports match, swim, talk, three-legged walks, walk, watch TV/don't watch TV, window clean, etc etc etc
Sports Contests - teachers vs students (no PE teachers allowed!)
Stalls at Fairs etc - eg cakes, plants, books
Strawberry and Cream Tea Party
Student-Teacher Swap Day
Swap-Shop
T
Tea Party
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Theme Days/Evenings - eg countries - French, Spanish; soap operas, past-eras etc
Throwing Wet Sponges - at a person/teacher in stocks, great at a summer fair!
Tombola
Top of the Pops Show - teachers or students miming and dancing to chart music
Treasure Hunt
Tuck Shop - where the profits go to Global Angels - getting supplies donated?
U
Uniform Days -for schools without a uniform and/or for teachers)
University Challenge
V
Variety Shows
W
Whacky Races
White Elephant Stall
Who's That Baby? - students and staff bring in photos of themselves as babies
X
X-Files Day (Use your imagination - the ideas are out there!)
Xmas Fair/Panto/Party
Y
Young Enterprise Scheme - run by students, donate part of profits (eg making and selling cards)
