Old Japan by Andrew Haslam and Clare Doran

The symbols used were - the fan, sword and tea bowl.
Activity: The Zen 'gravel" garden is like a Japanese landscape in miniature. Water is incorporated into many Zen gardens to sugegt a waterfall, ocean or a fast-flowing river, or else it may simply provide a soothing sound as it drips into a stone basin.


Timeline of emperors, religion, culture and world war.
The following can be used as icons or for interaction and can be made with paper and pasted on a chart - flora and fauna: rice, seaweed, mulberry bush, tea, oranges, lemons, octopus, salmon and tuna.
What did the Japanese wear based on their social class.

Activity: Make a Kimono with paper. Make a family crest and paste it on the kimono.

Activity: Make a pair of Japanese shoes Geta.

Activity: Hair style and head dress

Living with Nature: a wooden house. The kitchen situated at ground level.

Activity: Make a paper screen.

Activity: Make a fan, paint it (can also be made with a paper plate)

Games: Battledore: Origianly, battledore was played with a soyabean instead of a shuttlecock. Beans were beleived to ward off evil and disease.

Games: At new Year children played with spinning tops made of bamboo and paper.

Activity: Make a samurai sword. make a sword, cover it with paper and decorate it.
Activity: Make a warrior kite. Make a kite and draw warrior faces
Activity: Make a carp streamer

The Doll Festival

The Moon Festival

Activity: Make a Kite, Make a Moon fan (decorate the fan with autum flowers and leaves)

Activity: Make a sushi

Activity: Use chop sticks

Activity: Make a musical instrument shamisen. The shamisen has three strings which are strummed. It is used to accompany puppet chanters in a type of theatre known as Bunraku.

Activity: Make a Noh Mask

Activity: Make a Kendo Mask

Activity: Make a Hanko or seals were used as signatures. Take a potato and cut the alphabet and print it on paper.

Activity: Paper hung on strings. Prayers written on strips of paper are often hung around Shinto shrines for good luck.

Chinese characters developed from simple drawings - tree, mountain, river, rice field, person, and mouth.

Activity: Paper making

Activity: Origami flapping bird

The red cloth is a sign that kami is being taken care of. Peopel make offerings of food and drink to the kami to keep them happy.