January 18 - We travel to the Guiding World Centres starting with Sangam.

For the next few weeks our unit is going to explore the world without leaving our homes!
There are 5 World Centres for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts that span the globe.
The locations we will travel to are- Sangam in India, Our Chalet in Switzerland, Pax Lodge (England), Our Cabana (Mexico) and Kusafiri (various locations in Africa).

Our first stop is Sangam! 
It was built 55 years ago.

Welcome video of Sangam

Take a virtual tour

One of the things that is done during festivals is to decorate elephants.
This week our craft is making an elephant finger puppet.
Here is a festival with painted elephants

CRAFT-
You will need needle, scissors, glue, grey felt pieces, white fun foam piece, two goggle eyes and self-adhesive decorations.

Cut out your elephant head out with scissors and thread your needle with grey thread.  
From the white fun foam, cut two tusks.

SEW around the outside the two identical body pieces with grey thread. 

Here is a closer view of the stitching.

 

 Glue to the underside of the head, a tusk on each side.  

Then stitch or glue the head on top of the finger area.

PEEL the decorations off their backing and then stick to the elephant to decorate it like it was a festival.

During the last few months one positive thing I have found is the dancing of Gurdeep.
He lives in the Yukon and everyday he posts a video of him doing bhangra.  
The bhangra is a  type of popular dance music combining Punjabi folk traditions with Western pop music.
Get ready to dance

If you want to try something new how about making your own chai? 
Chai is a popular hot drink in India.
Here is video on how to make chai
Here is the recipe

Next week we find our way to Our Chalet!