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Description

Learn about the holiday of Lohri and make a sweet drink to celebrate

Resources

Ingredients (per 1 serving)

· 1/4 teaspoon (1g) black salt

· 1 tablespoon (4g) lemon juice

· 1/4 cup (52g) of lemonade or sparkling water

· 1/2 cup (77g) of diced watermelon

· 1/2 cup (58ml) of sugarcane juice
Measuring cups
Serving cups
Knives
Chopping boards
Strainer/sieve
Blender – optional

Instructions

Introducing the activity
Explain that one of the Scouts values is beliefs. Scouts always respect people’s beliefs, faiths and cultures, and everyone should be open to learn. Ask everyone why it’s important for people to learn about each other's faiths and beliefs, even if we don’t have a faith ourselves.  
Explain that if people don’t have a faith, that’s OK. They might have beliefs, values or a shared community, like in Scouts where we have shared values of integrity, respect, care, cooperation and belief. Whether you’ve a faith or not, what are your most important values or beliefs? For example, you may believe in kindness or value honesty and compassion. 
Tell everyone that today you’ll be learning about a festival called Lohri. Lohri is a festival traditionally celebrated by people from the Punjab region in India and Pakistan.
Juice time!
Everyone should wash their hands, then give out the equipment and ingredients.
Everyone should carefully cut up the watermelon.
Next, measure out all the ingredients.
Add the watermelon, sugarcane juice, lemon juice and black salt into a blender and mix it well. This step may be noisy, so some people may want to step out of the room.
When mixed, pour the juice through a strainer into a bowl, jug or pan that’s big enough to catch it all.
Pour the strained mixture into a glass.
Top the glass up with the lemonade or sparkling water.
Serve the drink with ice or a paper straw, then enjoy!

Tags

• Lohri

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• World - Foreign activity