Pandas are great at climbing trees and making dens. Try getting from one side of your meeting place to the other without your feet touching the floor. Alternatively have an evening making your own dens
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Research the traditional game ‘Mahjong’ and learn how to play. You could even make your own set of mahjong tiles
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Hold a water race using ‘bamboo shoots’
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Find out about the Giant Panda food chain
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In small groups, do some research and find out what pandas eat, present your information in a fun way to the rest of your unit
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Taste test different Chinese foods. What do you think? How do they differ to foods traditionally eaten in this country?
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Sushi is popular in Asia, have a go at making your own sushi dishes
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Have a go at making your own traditional Asian dishes
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Decorate cakes or biscuits to look like panda faces
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Make a meal using only black and white foods
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Try eating some traditional Chinese food using chop sticks
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Have a go at cooking with or eating bamboo shoots
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Have an egg throwing contest. In pairs take it in turns to throw and catch the egg, increasing the distance between them each time.
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In Sweden, Easter is celebrated by children dressing up as witches and wizards. Play the wizard game.
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Take an Easter twist on a traditional game, swapping ‘Duck, duck, goose’ for ‘Bunny, bunny, chick’!
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Hold your own egg and spoon races. Make it more interesting with waterbombs instead of eggs!
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How fast can you bunny hop? Hold races and race in relay
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Have a go at making your own ‘peeps’ or alternatively use meringue to create the same shapes.
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Jelly beans are popular in USA at Easter. Play the ‘Bean Game’
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Find out what Kosher food is and what food is traditionally eaten at Passover
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Play pin the tail on the rabbit using cotton wool balls.
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Dying eggs is a craft and can be done with natural dyes. Try it yourself and find out which plants, vegetables and fruits make which colours. You could even try scavenging to find your ingredients.
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Have a go at making your own pretzels or try them
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Find out about Easter traditions around the world.
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Visit a local Church and learn about Easter.
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Taste test jelly beans and see if you can guess the flavours
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Test out some science and try walking on eggs (in their shells).
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Have a go at making your own chocolate eggs.
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Plan a visit and find out about Easter Island. How would you get there? How much would it cost? What would you see while you were there?
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Decorate an Easter bonnet and hold your own Easter bonnet parade. Who’s was best?
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Hold an Easter egg hunt. Perhaps you could run it as a fund raiser for your group and invite people to join in and sell tickets
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Make an Easter tree decoration and hang them in your meeting place or at home
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Learn about Passover, invite a Rabi to visit your meeting place.
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Go pom-pom mad and create yourself a little pom-pom pal in the form of an Easter chick, bunny or lamb
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Easter changes date depending on the lunar calendar. Go stargazing and learn about the cycle of the moon.
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Make paper flowers or have a go at flower arranging
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Make a mechanical egg or a model egg using materials of your choice
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Do an octopus themed quiz. Can you tell the difference between true octopus facts and fake ones?
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Find out some other fun octopus themed facts and share them with your group. Who can find the funniest fact? The weirdest fact?
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Cut and fold carrot shaped boxes to hold your Easter treats
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Make a human octopus using only your bodies.
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Try your hand at origami and fold an Easter basket or a bunny
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Have an octo-challenge night. Complete 8 different challenges within your meeting time.
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Visit your local aquarium and meet an octopus.
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Use tools to do some DIY, build some flat pack furniture or learn a new skill, making something useful.
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Pysanka is the traditional art of egg painting. Try blowing an egg and decorating the shell with paint
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Did you know Octopuses have 3 hearts. Find out how big they are and some other heart facts.
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Octopuses are deaf. Learn how to communicate with people who are deaf and learn some British Sign Language (BSL) or Makaton.
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Make some predictions for the next year about yourself, your group and the world around you. Seal them in an envelope and open them in a years time…what did you get right?
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Lying on skateboards use plungers to pull yourselves along and have races.
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