Half term holiday fun!
Schools were on holiday earlier this month for one week. With the help of Wild Coast Schools volunteer Amy, we
took over Chintsa East school with our fun activities and games for the week.
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| Making musical instruments from recycled stuff |
MONDAY... hosted an eclectic mix of activities for everyone. Kick starting
the day was musical instrument making. We recycled old water bottles, and
filled them with different materials. I explained how different materials
make different sounds and the children had great fun experimenting outside! We also
decorated our water bottles using paper and felt-tip pens. Once everybody had
finished, we taught the young holiday clubbers how to make the musical instruments
really quiet and really loud, before moving on to rhythms!
Next stop we iced our own biscuits, with
sweets, which was a tasty treat. The children then chose to get sticky with
mosaic making or energetic with drama games. The holiday clubbers left us happy
and tired out at the end of the morning.
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| Decorating our musical instruments |
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| Art lessons with Kate |
TUESDAY... We had a special guest visiting us to do an art workshop with the
holiday clubbers. Kate from Friends of Chintsa came and the children drew some
beautiful pictures. They spent a long time focusing on their pictures,
carefully drawing and colouring them in. We put all of the children’s work up
on display for everybody to see. Kate also showed some children the wonders of
binoculars, which caused a lot of excitement!
Mid morning snack time brought sandwich
making. We had a choice of either peanut butter or jam sandwiches. Young African Angel Imvana was
great at cutting the sandwiches in half for everyone.
As it was heritage day, some of us took to
the stage, singing and dancing enthusiastically. It is safe to say that we
celebrated it in style.
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| Imavana taking charge of sandwich production |
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| Yummy! Peanut butter and jam! |
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| Celebrating Heritage Day |
WEDNESDAY... Greensleeves orphanage! We packed up the bus for the day and went off to
Di’s home of safety for 30 children. We started the day off with frisbee and
ball games, before having a lot of fun with a parachute. The parachute soon
became a den, and we read the children stories.
Next stop, swimming in the lake! After
donning the swimming costumes, 12 very enthusiastic children ran and jumped
into the lake. (Though there were a few hesitant girls and boys who we paddled with).
“Today’s the day the teddy bears have their
picnic.” The children met our teddy bear, who invited them to his Teddy bear’s
picnic. We decorated our picnic plates before making sandwiches for the
teddies. Armed with our teddy bears we followed the hidden arrows to our picnic
site. The children wolfed down their sandwiches, squash and sweet! Check out the pictures of the picnic on facebook.
After having lunch, we brought our laptops
out and ended the afternoon playing computer games!
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| A sneaky recorder lesson with me! |
THURSDAY... The early bird children, got
a sneaky recorder lesson from me. They learnt how to blow into the
recorder and make two notes, practise makes perfect!
Everybody then learnt
about caring for our animals in the village! The children drew posters of their
favourite animals and wrote about how to care for them.
Shaun from Friends of
Chintsa joined us for a video workshop! He took small groups of children and
taught them how to make short videos, it was very popular.
To end our morning, we held a talent show!
We had another musical instrument lesson before splitting into groups. The
groups were then asked to make a performance using musical instruments, voices
and bodies. After creating and rehearsing, we had 5 fantastic performances from
all of the holiday clubbers!
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| Volunteer Amy's team - The Lions! Grrrrr! |
FRIDAY
...Ahoy there, it is competition time! Excited
holiday clubbers arrived early for our morning of competitions. 9am brought the
gardening competition. Ash’s Angels, Charlotte’s giraffes, Phumla’s birds and
Amy’s lions were ready to dual with their spades! Round 1 “what’s that?” Teams
had the task of identifying the numerous plants in the garden, in a quick fire
round. Ash’s Angels won!
Round 2: Speed gardening. On your marks, get
set, go! Each team had 30 minutes to weed, water and mulch their vegetable
plot. Ash’s Angels won hands down, with rocks rearranged and extra vegetable
plots weeded! Watering was a breeze with the new pipes installed at the school,
and the teamwork of everybody.
Round 3: It’s time to put your thinking
caps on. Our gardening teams used their imaginations and drawing skills to design
their perfect garden. Points were awarded for attention to detail and thinking
outside of the box. At the end of the round, the teams presented their gardens
to the rest of the children. My team "the giraffes" won with their half water,
half vegetable garden creation.
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| The start of the gardening games |
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| African Angel Indie mulching the veggie patch |
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| Presenting our perfect garden designs |
TREASURE
HUNT TIME
The children couldn’t contain their excitement
to find the buried treasure. Each team was given a map (made by a grade 7
student), which showed the location of 7 clues at the school. After a lot of
manic running around, the teams next job was to the answer the questions. “What
programme did we use last term to make our maps?” “What’s the older student’s nickname
for Charlotte”
Only once they had answered all of these
questions, could they then work out the location of the sandpit where the treasure was buried. After a lot of
thinking and a clue or two, my team worked out that the treasure
was buried in the sandpit! Needless to say, there were smiles all around after
they opened up their treasure of prizes.
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| Alizwa & Erin at holiday club :) |
We jam packed a lot into one week… when’s
the next holiday club?! I can't wait! :)
Charlotte
Volunteer Co-ordinator - Education Projects
Volunteer Co-ordinator - Education Projects
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