Saint Phanourios

Introduction

Watch the 20-minute video "The Life of Saint Phanourios" with storytime and music.

Activity 1

Play "hide and seek". Hide small laminated icons of Saint Phanourios around the house and look for them.

Activity 2

Using laminated castle wall battlements and whiteboard markers, have a soldier or citizen of Rhodes walking along them counting by ones, twos, and tens.

Curriculum areas: M01a, M01b, M01d, M01e, M03b

Lunch Snack

Use food, such as crackers with peanut butter or cream cheese, or thick rounds of carrot or cucumber, to build city walls.

Curriculum areas: S13a, S13c

Activity 3

Make phanouropita:

Ingredients:
- 3 cups SR flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp orange zest (approximately half an orange)
- 3/4 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup brandy
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F
2. Combine all the dry ingredients and mix
3. Add the wet ingredients and mix to form batter.
4. While stirring, give thanks for the lost things that have been found.
5. Grease a tin with olive oil and pour the batter in.
6. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
7. Top with powdered sugar.

Activity 4 

Play the online choose-your-own-advencture Siege Quest game.