Kanga Necklaces

This week we read a book called 'The Sun, the Wind and Tashira'. It is about a girl who lives in Namibia. She wears a lot of bracelets and necklaces. We think they are beautiful. So, this week we made our own jewellery.

Tashira is a story about a girl who really loves colours.

We made necklaces out of kangas. A kanga is a colourful piece of cloth, a bit like a sarong, that we use for all sorts of different things like carrying babies and wearing as clothes. The material was cut into strips and then sewn into a tube.

Then we collected stones to use as beads. We tied a knot at one end of the tube so that the stones would not fall out.

Thanks Karen for helping out.

After we had tied the knot, we put in a stone and pushed it all the way to the bottom. Then we tied another knot and put in another stone. We continued until we had put about 8 or 9 stones. Then we tied a knot at the end.

We love the necklaces we made. We loved wearing them and posing for lots and lots of photos.

After we made the necklaces we had a guessing game. We had to guess how many necklaces there were. Doris guessed 41 and she was right! We were all very surprised!

The students from Avenel Primary School, in Australia, are going to sell some of our jewellery to raise money for STA. Teacher Lauren is going to sell the rest of the jewellery so that we can get some more great books like 'The Sun, the Wind and Tashira'.

We want to make more necklaces to give to our family and friends. They are so bright and colourful!

Questions:
1. What equipment do you need to make kanga necklaces?
2. How many necklaces did we make?
3. Think about what is in your classroom. What jewellery could you make?
4. What is a good name for our necklaces?
5. A lot of people in Tanzania wear jewellery. Do people in your country wear jewellery? What does it look like?