Handcraft Syllabus

Bible Syllabus 2009/2010

Block A

Session 1   God the Creator

Block B

Session 1   Breath of Life

If you require a copy of the Bible Syllabus and Resource Pack please contact the office.

P.E. Badge

The aim of this badge is to promote an awareness of physical well being
Junior Candidates

1. Hop from one foot to another
2. Walk in a circle
3. Jump across a line
4. Balance on two feet for the count of five, with a bean bag on your head
5. Join in a simple team game

Candidates

1. Move around the room showing you can hop, skip and jump
2. Balance on two feet for the count of five, with a bean bag on your head. Walk 5 steps
3. March in time to music
4. Join in a simple team game
5. Throw and catch a ball or bean bag

Junior Members
7-9 years Complete 1 and 5 others
9-11 years Complete all

1. Know why it is important to warm up and cool down prior to and after exercise
2. Figure marching in time to music
3. Throw or catch a ball or bean bag working with a partner or in a group
4. Skip using a rope ? music may be used
5. Posture ? Walk and turn with bean bag or book on your head
   (7-9 years ? 8 steps each way)
   (9-11 years ? 12 steps each way)
6. Complete a simple assault course including moving over, under and around obstacles
7. Take part in a game using music
8. Within a group be able to perform a series of movements to music

Members

Complete questions 1 and 2 plus 7 others

1. Know why it is important to warm up and cool down prior to and after exercise
2. Know why a ‘fit girl’ is a healthy girl.
3. Show that you have taken part in a team game in school/youth club etc. (minimum 2 terms)
4. Figure marching in time to music
5. Throw or catch a ball or bean bag working with a partner or in a group
6. Skip forwards and backwards to music using a rope ? to last at least eight bars
7. Complete a simple assault course including moving over, under and around obstacles
8. Within a group be able to perform a series of movements to music ? lasting at least 16 bars
9. Take part in a relay game.
10. Take part in a circuit spending a minimum of 30 seconds at each of 8 activities. See resource pack for details of activities.

Senior Members
Complete questions 1 & 2 and 8 others

1. Know why it is important to warm up and cool down prior to and after exercise
2. Know why a ?fit girl? is a healthy girl.
3. Show that you have taken part in a team game in school/youth club etc. (minimum 2 terms)
4. Figure marching in time to music
5. Throw or catch a ball or bean bag working with a partner or in a group
6. Do a skip routine to music of your choice using a rope incorporating forward and backward movements
7. Complete a simple assault course including moving over, under and around obstacles
8. Within a group be able to perform a series of movements to music ? lasting at least 16 bars
9. Take part in a relay game
10. Take part in a circuit spending a minimum of 30 seconds at each of 8 activities. See resource pack for details of activities.
11. Demonstrate a number of exercises using a piece of exercise equipment e.g. fit ball

Origami

Origami is the art of paper folding; it was invented in Japan hundreds of years ago.

Follow the instructions and create a beautiful envelope from paper of your choice.
You will need an accurate square of paper

1. Fold a diagonal line across the square of paper and crease, fold again in the opposite direction, do not crease, but mark centre with a light press of thumb.
2. Open up and then fold corner up to centre mark on your first diagonal crease, smooth crease firmly with fingers.
3. Fold again on original diagonal crease, smooth down firmly with both hands
4. Divide this fold into three and fold right-hand point over to meet first third, and left hand point to meet new side fold. Smooth up side creases firmly, fold back from point, so that it meets left hand fold and crease firmly.
5. Open up triangle so that is becomes a diamond, into which the top flap will “tuck” to close envelope.

Members Cookery

Easy Pizza Dough

• 2 ½ cups flour
• 1 teasp sugar
• 1 teasp salt
• 2 teasp oil
• 1 packet dry yeast
• 1 cup of warm water

1. Mix yeast and warm water and let set for 5 minutes
2. Mix flour, sugar, salt and oil . Let rise in warm place for 20 minutes.
3. Press out on cooking tray and add favourite sauce and topping. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degree C

Lemonade

• 2-3 Lemons
• 1 ½ lb sugar
• 2 pints hot water
• 1oz Citric Acid

1. Squeeze and grate lemons
2. Add sugar and water
3. Stir and leave overnight
4. Next day strain and add citric acid
5. Dilute as needed with sparkling water.

Omlettes

• 2 eggs
• Grated Cheese
• Peppers / Cheese / Tomatoes / Mushrooms / Bacon

1. Beat the two eggs
2. Add your choice of chopped ingredients and grated cheese.
3. Add a little water, put onto frying pan at moderate heat for 2-3 minutes.

Pavalova

• 4 egg whites
• 8 oz caster sugar
• Teaspoon of Vinegar
• Teaspoon of Cornflour
• 4/5 drops of Vanilla Essence

1. In a bowl place the egg whites and 4oz of caster sugar. Whisk until stiff
2. Add the rest of the sugar, vinegar, cornflour and vanilla. Whisk until mixed thoroughly.
3. Grease a cooking tray and cover with parchment paper. Spoon mixture onto tray.
4. Cook for 1 hour at 150 degrees celsius.

All in one Chocolate Cake

• 2 tablespoons hot water
• 3 eggs
• 4 margarine
• 5 caster sugar
• 6 oz flour
• 2 heaped teaspoons baking powder
• 1 tablespoon cocoa

1. Put all the above ingredients in a bowl and mix together with a wooden spoon.
2. Divide equally into 2 greased sandwich tins
3. Put in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius (Gas Mark 4)

Icing

• 4oz soft margarine
• 8oz icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon cocoa
• ½ teaspoon of vanilla essence
• 2 tablespoons of hot water

1. Put all the above ingredients in a bowl and mix well together

Decorated Flowerpot

Using acrylic paints, decorate a clay paint pot. Butterflies, plants, or polka dots are nice, simple decorations. If you will be adding a plant to the flowerpot, a painting of that plant is a nice touch.
Let it dry completely.

To give as a present you could fill the plant pot with potting soil and plant the seed of a fast-growing flower (like marigolds) or put in a small plant (herbs like chives are a nice choice).

Wrap with cellophane, and tie with a pretty bow.

Spider

1. Separate one cup from an egg carton.
2. Using the point of a scissors, an adult should make 8 small holes (4 on each side) at the base of the cup.
3. Insert a pipe cleaner into each of the holes for legs.
4. Draw a face and decorate the body.

Paper Baskets

These Paper Baskets are easy for kids to make, and fun to fill with treats that kids love.

Paper Baskets are great for any time of the year. Use a different shape to make baskets for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day or Easter. Be sure to pick colors of paper that will fit the theme of your baskets (eg. red hearts, yellow chicken, green shamrocks).

Junior Cookery

Berry Tasty Muffins

Prep time: about 40 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 c. flour
• 1 c. oatmeal
• 3 tbsp. sugar
• 1 tsp. salt
• 4 tsp. baking powder
• 1 c. blueberries, washed
• 1 egg
• 1 c. milk
• 1/4 c. vegetable oil
• nonstick spray

Utensils:

• oven (You’ll need help from your adult assistant.)
• mixing spoon
• 2 large bowls
• fork
• muffin/cupcake tin
• paper muffin/cupcake liners
• wire rack for cooling muffins
• measuring cups and spoons

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius).
2. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, oatmeal, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
3. Mix in blueberries.
4. In another bowl, break the egg and use a fork to beat it just a little bit.
   Then add the milk and vegetable oil, and mix.
5. Add this mixture to the first mixture in the large bowl.
6. Using a mixing spoon, mix about 25 or 30 times. Don’t mix too much! Your muffin mixture should be lumpy, not smooth.
7. Line a muffin tin with paper liners or lightly spray with nonstick spray.
   Spoon in the muffin mix. Fill each muffin cup about 2/3 of the way up.
8. Bake for about 20 minutes.
9. When muffins are finished baking, remove from muffin tin and cool them on a wire rack.
10. Enjoy your berry tasty muffins!

Serves: 12

Toffee Krispies

• 6 cups Kelloggs Rice Krispies
• 1 bag of marshmallows
• 3 tablespoons butter or margarine

Melt the margarine or butter in a non-stick pan and add the entire bag of marshmallows. Stir over medium heat until the marshmallows have completely melted. Add Rice Krispies and mix together well. Pour mixture onto cooking tray and spread out evenly. Cut into squares when cool.

Kids love making and eating these easy treats!

Fun Fruit Kebabs

Prep time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 apple
• 1 banana
• 1/3 c. red seedless grapes
• 1/3 c. green seedless grapes
• 2/3 cup pineapple chunks
• 1 cup nonfat yogurt
• 1/4 c. dried coconut, shredded

Utensils:

• knife (You’ll need help from your adult assistant.)
• 2 wooden skewer sticks
• large plate

Directions:

1. Prepare the fruit by washing the grapes, washing the apples and cutting them into small squares, peeling the bananas and cutting them into chunks, and cutting the pineapple into chunks, if it’s fresh. Put the fruit onto a large plate.
2. Spread coconut onto another large plate.
3. Slide pieces of fruit onto the skewer and design your own kabab by putting as much or as little of whatever fruit you want! Do this until the stick is almost covered from end to end.
4. Hold your kabab at the ends and roll it in the yogurt, so the fruit gets covered. Then roll it in the coconut.
5. Repeat these steps with another skewer

Frozen Yogurt Pops

Prep time: about 1 to 2 hours

Ingredients:

• 1 8-oz. container of your favorite flavor of yogurt

Utensils:

• small paper cups
• wooden popsicle sticks (available in craft stores)
• plastic wrap

Directions:

1. Pour yogurt into paper cups. Fill them almost to the top.
2. Stretch a small piece of plastic wrap across the top of each cup.
3. Using the popsicle stick, poke a hole in the plastic wrap. Stand the stick straight up in the center of the cup.
4. Put the cups in the freezer until the yogurt is frozen solid.
5. Remove the plastic wrap, peel away the paper cup, and eat your pop!

Serves: 3 to 4

Chocolate Easter Nests

To make 10 nests, you will need:

Ingredients:

• 225g (8oz) plain chocolate
• 50g (2 oz) butter
• 2 tablespoons golden syrup
• 100g (4oz) corn flakes
• 30 mini chocolate eggs
• Baking tray with shallow pans
• Paper cake cases

Recipe:

1. Put ten paper cases into pans in the baking tray.
2. Place a large pan on the stove and add the butter, golden syrup and broken chocolate pieces. Adult supervision is required.
3. Heat the pan gently, stirring all the time, until everything is completely melted.
4. Turn off the heat. Now add the corn flakes. Gently stir them into the chocolate, until they are completely covered.
5. Scoop the mixture out of the pan and into the paper cases. Using the back of a teaspoon, make a hollow in the middle of each nest.
6. Arrange a few mini eggs inside the hollow of the each nest. Put the tray into the fridge and let it set for about an hour.
7. Take the nests out of the cases and arrange onto a plate. Eat straight away.

Arts & Crafts Badge

The aim of this badge is to encourage girls to express themselves creatively and develop dexterity and interest in craft and design work.

Junior Candidates – make three of the following:

1. Gift Card or Gift Tag
2. A collage picture
3. A calendar
4. An item using paper
5. Sewing card – dot to dot
6. A piece of jewellery

Candidates – make five of the following

1. A gift card or tag
2. An article using a yogurt carton
3. A mat using binca canvas or plastic canvas
4. A collage picture
5. A calandar
6. A piece of jewellery
7. An item using paper
8. An item using clothes pegs
9. An item using pipe cleaners
10. Sewing card – dot to dot

Junior Members
7-9 years, one article from each section below.
3-11 years, six articles, at least one from each section below.

Wool Craft

1. A square using fifteen stitches
2. A doll’s scarf
3. A simple toy
4. A pom pom
5. An item using wool

Handcraft

1. An item using clothes pegs
2. A place mat
3. An article to contain pot pourri
4. An article using a recycled container

Thread Work

1. Thread a needle and sew on a button
2. Make a friendship or other bracelet using thread
3. Make a finger/glove/sock puppet
4. Make or decorate an item using a sock or socks

Paper Craft

1. Make an item using card or paper
2. Make a picture using a special skill, i.e. quilling, decoupage etc

Members and Senior Members
Members: one from each section
Senior Members: six articles, at least one from each section

Wool Craft

1. An item using wool

Sewing

1. Make a bag
2. A wall hanging
3. A soft toy

Handcraft

1. Decorate an article of clothing
2. A piece of jewellery
3. Stencil on item of practical use
4. Make a useful household item

Drawing and paperwork

1. Origami-decorative item
2. Calligraphy – GFS prayer, motto, etc.
3. Pencil drawing
4. Design a poster, computers may be use
5. Decoupage

Bible Study Badge

The aim of this badge is to give girls a deeper knowledge of the bible and its relevance for today.

All girls

Study the course set out for the Bible Study examination and obtain a pass mark for two years in your individual section – Junior Candidates, Candidates, Junior Members, Members, Senior Members

OR

Leaders may select the syllabus for any two years in the respective ages from the Bible Study hand book, all passages to be studied and examined in the individual sections.

Book Lovers Badge

The aim of this badge is to encourage enjoyment of literature

Junior Candidates

1. Leader to read three simple books to girls (2 from suggested list). Be able to answer four simple questions about the story.
2. Look at a picture and tell the leader what you see in it.

Candidates

1. Read four books, your favourite two from the attached list.
2. Draw a picture of what happens in your favourite book.
3. Know where to go to borrow books to read.
4. Know where your nearest library is and visit it.

Junior Members

1. Read two books from the attached list.
2. Read two other books of your choice.
3. Know what you call the person who writes a book.
4. Know where to find and borrow books you don’t have.
5. Know what the types of books are – fiction/non-fiction/reference.
6. Complete the book review sheet for the books you have read

Members and Senior Members
11-15 choose 4questions
15-18 do all 5 questions

1. Read two books from the list.
2. Read two other books of your choice and complete a short book review on each, one on either history, travel or nature.
3. Visit your local library, find out about the major sections in the library and the types of book in each section.
4. Produce a small leaflet on an author of your choice.
5. Find out about any famous poet and learn about one of his/her poems or review an article from your favourite magazine and discuss.

Book review sheets are available from Central Office

Book list and summaries attached

All the books on the list are available from Central Office on loan
Book List
Junior Candidates / Candidates

1. This is the Tree – a story of Baobab – Miriam Moss/Adrienne Keenaway Miriam Moss’s prose poem combines with Adrienne Kennaway’s vivid and beautiful artwork to capture the magic of the Africa Plain.
2. So Much – Trish Cooke, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
   “Eulogises urban Afro-Carribean home life through tenderness and humour …A book to savour.” The Times Educational Supplement
3. Elmer and the Stranger – Dick McKee
   Children will love this colourful adventure with their favourite patchwork elephant which introduces a delightfully bouncy new friend.
4. For Every Child – UNICEF
   The rights of the child in words and pictures
5. This is our house – Michael Rosen, illustrated by Bob Graham
   George says the cardboard house is his and no one else can play in it. But Lindy, Marly, Freddie, Charlene, Marlene Luther, Sophie and Rasheda have other ideas.

Junior Members

1. The Long March – Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (7-9 years)
   A famine gift for Ireland
   The Irish and International Award-Winning Book.
   It is 1847. Choona is a young Choctaw. Word has reached his tribe that there is a famine in Ireland. From what little they have, the Choctaws collect $170 to help the starving Irish. Choona must decide for himself whether to answer the cry for help. The Long March is also an amazing story of the Choctaws journey to the New Lands in the West. Author/illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick travelled from Ireland to Oklahoma to research this true story. The result is a stunning portrait of Choctaw arts and culture, as well as a universal tale of a boy who must overcome bitterness and sorrow as he struggles to become an adult with adult tribal values.
2. Cliffhanger – Jacqueline Wilson (7-9 years)
   From climbing and abseiling to canoeing and a Crazy Bucket Race, the adventure holiday promised to be full of action. There’s just one problem as far as Tim is concerned: he is hopeless at sports of any kind ….
   Can Tim survive the horrors of a week absolutely packed with activity?
   Can his team – the Tigers – be the overall champions? There are some surprises in store for everyone
3. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky – Susan Jeffers/Chief Seattle (7-9 years)
   A highly illustrated version of Chief’s Seattle’s plea to stop the needless abuse of nature. A sophisticated text with an environmental message for more confident readers.
4. For every Child – UNICEF (7-9 years)
   The rights of the child in worlds and pictures
5. No gun for Asmir – Christobel Mattingley (9-11 years)
   War has come to Asmir’s home in Sarajevo. One day he is torn from his father, his home, and everything he has known.
6. Star of Light – Patricia St John (9-11 years)
   Hamid does not want his little blind sister, Kinza, to be sold to a beggar so he decides to resuce her. Together they escape from their mountrain village to a town where they make a new home for Kinza. But this is only the start of their adventures. Will Kinza be safe? Wheat will happen to Hamid who dare not go back home?
7. Benny and Omar – Eoin Colfer 9-11 years)
   Benny, an average Irish schoolboy, has to face being uprooted and re-planted in Africa. Determined to find fault with everything, Benny finally meets his match in Omar. Omar has never learned English, but is a master of telly-speak, and in this unique way the boys manage to communicate. Trouble follows, of course.
8. Out of Bounds – New June (9-11 years)
   A unique collection of short stories about young people, both black and white experiencing personal conflict within the policital context of South Africa during the past 50 years.

Members and Senior Members

1. The Road to Memphis – Mildren D Taylor
   It is 1941 and Cassie Logan is finished high school in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, and dreaming of college and law school.  But no amount of schooling could prepare her for the tense dramas that are about to converge; a quarrel between two young lovers; a black friend’s rage at his white tormentors and a white youths remorse over his part in a violent incident.
   Caught up in the centre, Cassie is propelled into three harrowing, exhilarating and unforgettable day that force her to confront the adult world as never before.
2. The Power of One – Bryce Coutrenay
   Born in South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six year old Peekay learns one day that small can beat big.
   Armed with knowledge, he resolves to take on the injustices of his country, and sets his heart on becoming the welterweight champion of the world.  Peekay starts to take boxing lessons, make new friends, collects cacti and plays the piano.  Above all, he learns to think with his head and then with his heart.
   Peekay discovers that nothing can defeat the determination to be true to yourself: this is the power of one.
3. I am David – Anne Holm
   David escapes from a concentration camp and flees across Europe.
   He is utterly alone – who can he trust?
   What will await him back home?
   And all the while he knows that they may catch up with him …
   “…the boys strange, intense, self-preserving view is realised superbly” The Sunday Times
4. The Cay – Theodore Taylor
   Adrift on the ocean, then marooned on a tiny deserted island, a young boy and an old man struggle for survival.
   This is as tense and compulsive as only a survival story can be; it is also a fascinating study of the relationship between Phillip, white, American and influenced by his mother’s prejudices, and the black man upon whom Phillip’s life depends.
5. The Other Side of Truth – Beverley Naidoo
   In a novel which sensitively explores the difficulities of being a refugee, 12 year old Sade and her brother Femi, sent to London to escape the political trouble in Nigeria, find themselves alone in a new – often hostile – environment.
6. The Street Children of Brazil – Sarah de Carvalho
   This is a remarkable true story of a life transformed.  It tells of the incredible work that Sarah de Carvalho and her husband have found in the Happy Child Mission.  It is a story of immense faith, suffering and love.  The children whose stories are revealed will change the heart of every reader.
7. Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
   When Adeline Yen Mah’s mother died giving birth to her, the family considered Adeline bad luck and she was made to feel unwanted all her life.  Chinese Cinderella is the story of her struggle for acceptance and how she overcame the odds to prove her worth.