Choose and do five of the following:

**Make a scrapbook about your own culture. Include details that might be of interest to someone from a different country, such as:
– your national anthem
– the meaning of one of your names
– information about your faith or religion
– a picture of your national flag
– a picture of someone in your national dress
– your family’s or town’s coat of arms
– your national emblem
– a recipe for a national dish
– information about a national or patron saint.

**Keep a record of the food that you eat during one week, including:
– The country or part of the world where you would expect to eat that food.
– Details from the packaging about where the ingredients come from.
Point out these different places on a map of the world.

**From magazines, newspapers and websites, collect pictures that show girls and women around the world at work, school and relaxing. Include pictures from your own country.

**Make a decoration or craft from another country, for example Mexican God’s eye, Danish heart, Swedish dove or Rangoli patterns.

**Listen to or read a story from another country. Act it out with your Six for the rest of the unit.

**Decorate an egg in the style of an Eastern European Easter egg.

**Make some food from a culture other than your own that is eaten at a festival time, such as Saint Nicholas’ biscuits eaten in Scandinavia at Christmas or Jewish New Year honey cake.

**With other Brownies plan and take part in a Japanese doll festival, or a Chinese New Year celebration.

*Either
Make a mask of an animal from another part of the world.
Or
Make a mask to represent a custom or tradition from a culture other than your own.

*Find out about jewellery worn around the world. Make earrings or a necklace from natural materials, or use modelling clay to simulate bone or teeth.

*Make a scrapbook about different clothes and costumes worn around the world. This could include pictures, costume dolls or clothes.

*Either
Play a singing game from another country.
Or
Make a musical instrument from another country.

*Make a model of a house from another country. Find out what it would be built from.