While one patrol makes the dough, the other patrol writes fortunes on small slips of paper.
Ingredients:
| 1 Cup Shortening | 1 egg |
| 3 Cups Plain Flour | 1/4 teaspoon Salt |
| 1 cup Sugar | 2 teaspoons Almond flavouring |
| 1 Teaspoon Carb Soda | Blanched Almonds |
Method:
Cream shortening,
sugar, egg & almond flavouring until smooth.
Sift in
Flour, Soda & Salt.
Knead &
roll dough into balls about 3 - 4 cm diameter.
Fold quotes
& insert one into the centre of each ball.
Press an
almond on top of each ball.
Bake 10
- 15 minutes at 180C.
Each Dragon starts as a pair of photocopied heads, one facing each way. (these should be enlarged so each head fills a whole A4 page)
Dragons are coloured; remember Chinese Dragons
are BRIGHT!!!
Use felt-tip pens for preference, fluro highlighters
are great as contrast to traditional red!
Cut out the pair of heads.
Glue the tongues together to make one tongue and staple the heads together around the edge leaving an opening for stuffing at the neck. (from B to C)
Stuff with something soft and light. E.g. Cotton wool, crumpled tissue paper, even newspaper at a pinch!
Insert a wooden skewer into the neck (at A) and close the opening with tape to hold the skewer in place.
Cut 2 different coloured strips of crepe paper
2 - 3 cm wide for each dragon.
Concertina fold these strips to make the dragon
body/tail.
One end gets inserted into the neck and stapled
firmly in place. The other end is taped to a second wooden skewer.
Dragons can entertain girls from 5 to 50! Younger girls will tend to complete them quickly while older girls can spend ages getting it "just right!"
For quieter times or as a filler why not have
girls make & decorate paper concertina fans?
They could fan themselves while singing this
song!
My ship sailed from China
With a cargo of tea
All laden with presents for you and for me
They brought me a fan.
Just imagine my bliss,
When I fan myself daily
Like this, like this, like this, like this.
Pick up an object from one dish and move it to the next dish using chopsticks.
Pass the chopsticks to the next player.
This can be as simple or elaborate as your girls like!
Objects could be jelly beans, rice etc.
Each patrol forms a Dragon, by 1 person forming a head and the rest the tail. The tail holding on to the hips of the person in front.
Each Head tries to catch the tail of the other dragons.
As they get caught they become the head of the dragon. Each head should be trying to protect its tail.
Play Mahjong
Play Dominoes, the game or falling.
Make fried rice.
