Kingdom of Benin traded and exported many products including cotton and fabric.
Find out about food products they exported in the YouTube videos below:
Find out about food products they exported in the YouTube videos below:
Find out about trees where some of the produce come from in the video below:
A local market scene
Suggested activities
As part of Kingdom of Benin study, take your class on a walk to the local market.
Resources:
Activities
Suggested activities
As part of Kingdom of Benin study, take your class on a walk to the local market.
Resources:
- A camera
- Selection of drawing and writing materials
- Examples of different art works, market poems and stories, TV adverts
Activities
- Read and write market poems with a Kingdom of Benin theme.
- Read and write market stories with a Kingdom of Benin theme.
- Use your camera to take a picture of a transaction scene at the market, write a play script with the characters in the scene. Scene could be of African fabric/clothes shop or African food stall.
- Present your play to the class or at a whole school assembly.
- Design a poster to keep the market clean.
- Write interview questions for market stall holders about their business.
- Interview a market stall holder using the questions from number 6 above.
- Write a report on 'Selling goods in the market' using your interview answers from number 7 above.
- Produce a 'Visit The Market' brochure. Highlights should include African stalls and goods.
- Drama & Role play: Produce a one minute TV advert to advertise a rain-forest food product or fabric sold at the market and present this to others.
- Photography: Take photographs of different scenes at the market to make a montage.
- Make a clay model of the market.
- Freeze frame a scene at the market, use found materials to record this.
- Use a paint package to recreate a scene at the market.
- Use charcoal, chalk or pencil to draw a scene at the market.
- Make drawings of buildings, objects and people and put them together to create an imaginary scene at the market.
- Take a photo of a scene at the market, use a view finder to allocate parts of it to each child to paint and arrange final products in a class market portrait.
- Paint a soundscape of the market.
- Paint a scene of three people interacting in a section of the market.
- Use different materials to make a collage of the market.
- Make a mosaic of a scene at the market.
- Make a painting of a scene at the market.
- Still life: buy some fruit from the market and back in class, arrange these on a fruit bowl for children to sketch or paint.
- Distortions: Buy a couple of objects from the market, back in class, children draw and distort the image. Extension: use a computer paint programme to draw the objects then distort them.