Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Harmony Day 2008



Last year the school celebrated Harmony Day, and is planning to do so again in 2008.

Harmony Day is an Australian Government initiative: Harmony Day is celebrated on 21 March each year and is about bringing people together to celebrate Australia's community harmony, participation and cultural diversity.

While helping those planning for this year's event, I came across HopeRevo, and the idea from this site could be adapted for Harmony Day.

We also sell these badges as a fundraising initiative - making the badges here at school with a badgemaking machine. The colour of Harmony Day is orange, so we used orange scrapbooking papers (with lots of interesting designs and patterns) and some simple sayings, such as "You +Me=Us" in quirky fonts.

1 comment:

Therin of Andor said...

Those badges look great. We usually do rotating activities for the K-2 students on the Big Day, and my activity (when I was on a class) was always harmonious orange-iced Arrowroot biscuit faces, decorated with sweets. Yummo! The students spend the activity time making them, then they inevitably eat them on their way to the next activity.

Regards, Ian
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