Christmas in Ghana

1. Objectives
   • Learn how a universal festival is celebrated in a tropical country
   • Explore the moral significance of the Christmas message
   • Explore the development education aspects of Christmas
2. Programme
   Geographical position of Ghana and how that has a bearing on
   • Weather at Christmas
   • Food at Christmas
   • The festive Tree
   • Light and dark
   • The economic conditions and giving gifts in Ghana
   • The symbol of THE CHILD in all traditions(presenting a child in Ghana.
3. Workshops
   EITHER
   • Make symbolic trees and decorate them
   • Ghanaian symbols from Adinkra and other patterns as gifts
   • Presenting a child in Ghana
   • Write short stories or poems about the symbols, or Christmas
   • Learn a song, dance and compose a piece of music OR
   • Develop a Ghanaian story
4. Performance
   • Work on the results of the workshop for presentation
5. Criteria
   • Age Range - all ages
   • Group size - class size
   • Resource - cards, cane or willow, paint, paper, strings
6. Follow up
   • Writing about the project