Celebrating Kawanza

Mazao (mah-zah’-o) are the Crops

which represent African harvest and acknowledgement of productive labor.

Kwanzaa has a number of key symbols that are used as artifacts to teach, remind and inspire us in the application of Kwanzaa principles.  Mazao is one of them.

You will need:

Googly eyes

Yellow and orange paint

Bubble wrap

Green paper

Glue and scissors

Instructions:

Cut an oval of yellow card.

Lay a piece of bubble wrap, slightly bigger than the card, on a well-protected surface. Paint it with the gold or orange paint.

Now, carefully press the yellow card oval down onto the bubble wrap, to make a print. Leave to dry.

Cut two leaves from green card and glue them to the bottom of the sweetcorn oval.