Axe Creek Eppalock Newsletter

Incorporating news from the Eppalock Primary School, Axe Creek Fire Brigade & the Axe Creek Landcare Group.

Welcome to the Autumn Issue Edition 54. Autumn 2017

Welcome
Here we are again, the change of season and the year continues to
Community Notice Board
fly past at a great rate.
CFA News
Congratulations to the Eppalock PS on the long awaited Community
Kitchen. Be sure to flick through to have a look at the facilities and Eppalock PS Update
some of the kids in action making good use of the Kitchen. Axe Creek Playgroup

As always, a great update from the local Fire Brigade with issues that Landcares Latest
effect all residents. Axe Creek Cricket Club
Enjoy the change in season, take care and have a lovely Easter. Church News
Please remember this Newsletter is a community project, if you have Community News
something to add, please contact us via axecreeknews@gmail.com
Kids Corner
Wed love to see your photos, stories or news.
Sam Spence

Thank you to this issues

Contributors

John Wells - Axe Creek Fire

Brigade

Marie Mannes - Eppalock PS

Advertise your Business AND help the Community
Gillian Wells & Chris Kirwan -
If you would like some great local exposure for a reasonable price, then advertise in the
next issue of the Axe Creek Eppalock Newsletter. Axe Creek Landcare
Full Page $100 James OBryen - Axe Creek
Half Page $50 Cricket Club
Quarter Page $25 Fees charged help cover printing costs. Steve Weickhardt - Anglican
Advertising deadline for future issues: Parish
Winter 2017 June 2nd

Spring 2017 August 31st

Summer 2018 Dec 1st

Autumn 2018 Mar 2nd Contact us via axecreeknews@gmail.com

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 Community Notice Board
Emergency Contact Numbers
Fire, Police & Ambulance 000
(life threatening or time critical emergencies only)

Vic Emergency Hotline 1800 226 226

Information about all emergencies, including bushfires, storms and floods

Burn Off Notifications 1800 668 511

Poisons Information 13 11 26
Wildlife Rescue Service 0419 356 433

Useful Websites Local Churches

CFA www.cfa.vic.gov.au
DSE www.dse.vic.gov.au
Strathfieldsaye Community Church
Vic Roads www.vicroads.vic.gov.au
920 Wellington St, Strathfieldsaye
Combined Service - Sunday Mornings 9.30am

School Terms St Josephs Catholic Church

2017 Cnr Axe Creek & Strathfieldsaye/Eppalock Rds.

Sunday Mornings 9am

Term 1
30 Jan 31 Mar All Welcome

Term 2
18 Apr 30 Jun

Term 3
Axe Creek CFA
17 Jul 22 Sept

Term 4 Captain Neil Irving-Dusting

9 Oct 22 Dec 5439 6388

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 CFA News From Axe Creek Brigade
AN UNEXPECTEDLY QUIET FIRE SEASON
At the beginning of summer CFA was prepared for a major fire season, because of the unusually high
fuel loadall that grass that had grown so thickly after the wet winter and springbut fortunately Victo-
ria had remarkably few large fires.
We can put that down to the weather conditions. We didnt have the run of hot dry days followed by
strong northerly winds that bring our highest fire danger. On the isolated hot days there was not time for
the grass to become tinder dry, and the two spells with several hot days in a row were characterised by
higher humidity, which again stopped the fuel drying out completely.
Axe Creek brigade has had the quietest summer for many years, with only one call to a local fire out of
controland that was quickly controlledplus a small number of false alarms and other incidents. Alt-
hough the brigade was also called to support neighbouring brigades, none of those jobs lasted long.
It was a very different story in NSW, which also started the season with thick grass growth. They did have
long, hot, dry and windy spells (during which many weather records were broken), accompanied by
some disastrous large fires.

JUNIORS IN THE RACE

Members of the Junior Brigade have been training regularly with Mandurang brigade, and have com-
peted in a couple of twilight (early evening) competitions. Its been a great way to learn new skills
and learn about firefighting methods. At the time of writing they are looking forward to a larger compe-
tition meeting on the
March long weekend.
New members or interest-
ed community members
are welcome to come and
watch training sessions on
Sunday mornings. Contact
Brad Knight (5439 6348) or
Captain Neil Dusting (5439
6388) for further infor-
mation.
Photo caption:
Riley Mannes, Evan Cole
and Will Mannes in action
at a recent twilight com-
petition.

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DANGER IN THE KITCHEN
You know the old adage, if you cant stand the heat get out of the kitchen. But whether you are in the
kitchen or not, you dont want things to catch fire. The kitchen can be a dangerous place, as can be seen
from these reports of two fires that occurred on a single night earlier this year.
At Clyde North:
Firefighters were called to a kitchen fire around 7.15pm. The residents had managed to extinguish the fire
but one received severe burns to his foot.
CFA Cranbourne Station Officer Brad Trewavis said the oil in the cooking pot flashed and caught fire. The
resident was trying to remove the pot outside when the oil spilt onto his foot.
Its really important for residents to take the right precautions when cooking, he said.
A fire blanket should always be available and dont try to move the burning pot. Kitchen fires can be
easily avoided by paying closer attention when cooking.
Luckily there was no damage to the kitchen in this incident other than some minor smoke damage. Fire-
fighters remained on scene to assist paramedics and to help clean up the oil in the kitchen to prevent it re
-igniting.
At Wendouree:
CFA attended a home around 9.30pm where its believed a man was trying to remove a pot of oil that
had boiled over. Ambulance Victoria was called to the scene to treat the mans burns.
Cooking in the kitchen is one of the largest causes of fires in the home. A fire in your kitchen can cause
extensive damage and injuries.
To prevent kitchen fires you should:
Never leave cooking unattended
Always supervise children in the kitchen
Turn pot handles away from the stove edge
Keep stoves free of grease and fat build-up
Hang tea-towels away from the stove
Ensure the exhaust fan above the stove is clean
Have a fire blanket and extinguisher within easy reach but away from the cooking area
LESSONS FROM LOCAL HOUSE FIRES LAST WINTER
Last winter there were three house fires in country areas not far from Axe Creek. Heres what happened.
Case 1
A man was smoking in bed in a detached sleepout (converted shipping container. When his cigarette ig-
nited a fire he was overcome by the fumes, and died in the fire which destroyed the sleepout.
Take-home messages
NEVER smoke in bed.
Test smoke alarms regularly.
Case 2
A wood heater was kept stoked with too much fuel for long periods. The roof timbers dried out and and
charred. The occupants were awoken by the smoke alarm, and called 000. Firefighters were able to con-
fine the damage to the immediate surrounds.
Take-home messages
Dont overload your wood heatergenerally use no more than 2 or 3 blocks of wood.
Have flues checked regularlyat least before each winter.
Test smoke alarms regularly.
Case 3
A large, hot fire was burning in an open fireplace. The chimney brickwork was old, and probably cracked.
Adjacent roof timbers caught fire. The damage was confined to a small area, but was expensive to repair.
The smoke alarm was fixed to the wall, not the ceiling, and did not activate.
Take-home messages
Have brick chimneys checked before each winter.
Keep fires to a moderate size.
Make sure smoke alarms are installed correctly (on the ceiling, at least 300 mm from the wall).
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
When our family lived in Sweden a few years ago we learnt that the Swedes love to light candles, espe-
cially in the dark winter months. As Christmas approached we watched TV advertisements that empha-
sised the danger of having burning candles near curtains. Well, a century ago that was a real danger in
our district, as this story illustrates.
Bendigo Advertiser, Monday 27 January 1913
FIRE AT AXE CREEK.
Axedale, 25th January.
What proved a disastrous fire occurred at the residence of Mr. James Hennessey, at Axe Creek, about 9
o'clock last night, when the house and contents were totally destroyed. Mrs. Hennessey and two children
were the only occupants at the time, Mr. Hennessey returning home after the work of destruction had
been completed.
Much sympathy is felt for Mr. and Mrs. Hennessey, who are old and respected residents of the district. By
this fire an old landmark of the early days has been removed, as the house was at one time a flourishing
hotel, and eventually purchased by Mr. Hennessey.
Mrs. Hennessey and a friend had been in one of the front rooms, at the doorway of which a curtain was
hanging. The supposition is that this curtain was blown on to the candle Mrs. Hennessey was carrying as
they came out, thus igniting the building. The building was insured in the Commercial Permanent Land
and Building Society for 65, whilst the stable was covered by a policy for 10.

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 Eppalock Primary School

A Message from MR JASON ONEILL

My name is Jason ONeill and I will be the Acting Principal at Ep-
palock PS for 2017. It certainly has been a very busy start to the
school year, but also very enjoyable. The staff, students and school
community have been very welcoming and supportive which makes
it so much easier.

I have moved to Eppalock PS from Eaglehawk North PS where I was

a classroom teacher in various roles since 1999. During that time I
taught mostly in the 5/6 year level, but also spent time in the junior
part of the school both as a classroom teacher in 2/3 and 3/4, as
well as a year as the PE specialist from P-6. My last 6 months at the
school I was in an Acting Assistant Principal role.

In the past I have been involved in school Chess teams, which is

something we have started here at Eppalock already. We aim to be
able to participate in a number of Chess tournaments during the
year. The past two years at ENPS I was also a Team Manager of the
school Energy Breakthrough team. I enjoy being involved in these
types of extra programs. The Eppalock PS Living Green program is something that we should be really
proud of here and promote through the wider community. I look forward to watching this grow in the fu-
ture.

I have a wife Amanda, who works as a Kinder Assistant, and 3 children, Carly, Imogen and Bailey. We
spend most of our time being involved in some type of sport or watching something sporty. Amanda has
been involved in Eaglehawk netball as a player and coach for a long time. Carly plays netball at Eagle-
hawk, Imogen plays netball and hockey for Eaglehawk, but secretly wants to play girls football and Bailey
has played football for White Hills and basketball.

So thanks for welcoming my family and I to the community. I really look forward to meeting everyone
and working with you at different times during my time at Eppalock PS.

Swimming
What a fantastic time we have had
at swimming over the past four
weeks. All students represented our
school really well and we were real-
ly pleased to have a couple of the
swimming teachers comment on
the great effort, cooperation and
manners shown during the sessions.
Well done to all of our students

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Living Green Program

As part of our Living Green program, students made a Healthy Eating Pyramid and have been learning
about the different foods and their origins. They also learned about real and
fake food real food rots fake food doesnt.

Students making pizza using

produce from our school
garden.

Students in Prep/1 class love their art sessions. Here they

painted portraits of the teachers. We spend a couple of ses-
sions per week on Art and children love to show their amazing
creativity.

Grade 2/3 students use The Wise Owl to help them with storying-writing

Who? Where? What? Why? When? How?

Robotics Display at school

Recently we had a very interesting Robotics presentation from Sam and Now. Students learnt all about
how Now worked and the types of things he could do. Sam then quickly showed us about basic
Coding which is something that many of our students have shown interest in. We hope to be able to
include more Coding in the school. Now is the little guy in white and red.

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Kitchen after many years of fundraising and planning our new refurbished kitchen was opened re-
cently. It was great to see so many parents and community members in attendance to celebrate the
countless hours of hard work (many on a voluntary basis) that has been put into this project.
Students worked with our Living Green teacher, Lydia and prepared some delicious food for everyone
to enjoy. The new kitchen provides a wonderful teaching and learning space for our students as well as
a great area for community groups such as the Axe Creek Playgroup, Landcare and CFA.

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When Mondays 1.30 pm 3.15 pm
Thursdays 1.30 pm 3.15 pm
Where Eppalock PS Old School Building.149 Patons Road Axe Creek
(just a few minutes from Strathfieldsaye)

Come along and join other families for a cuppa and chat whilst your pre-school children enjoy lots of fun
activities. Fresh fruit is provided.

Morning Tea & activities provided.

Gold Coin Donation per child.

For further information please

phone (03) 5439 6366
email: eppalock.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
http://www.eppalockps.vic.edu.au
All Welcome

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 Axe Creek Landcare
The Axe Creek Landcare Committee meet at Eppalock Primary School,
in the newly refurbished Kitchen/Community Room
on the first Monday of each month
at 7.30 pm after daylight saving ends
or at 8.00 pm during daylight saving.

In 2017 we are aiming to have meetings or activities of interest to the general public
most months. There will be notices about these on the notice board in the Strathfield-
saye Shopping Centre. Non-members are welcome to attend.

Members of the community are always welcome to attend any meeting!

THREE LOCAL GARDENS

The Axe Creek Landcare Group kicked off the year with some late-afternoon garden visiting. About 30
people accepted the invitation to see what other people are doing with their patch of land.

And what they found were three extremely different approaches, all quite impressive.

The first mostly used thriving Australian natives in the ornamental section, though with some lovely roses
and a few other exotics. There were many comments about how neat everything was.

The vegetable garden, fenced to exclude rabbits and kangaroos, and nourished with heaps of goat
pen sweepings produced a prosperous range of vegies.

The automatic watering systems, set up to use dam water, were amazing. In housing along a fence was
a row of valves and hoses with timers that made watering easy. There was some disbelief when we
were told that the healthy looking vegies were sprayed from overhead sprinklers in the heat of the day.
Mutterings about the commonly accepted belief that watering should be done in the morning or even-
ing (and not overhead) could be heard. These vegies didnt seem to object, though. There is a school
of thought holding that plants actually take up more water when watered in the hot part of the day
than when watered in the evening or early morning. Hmm, something to look into!

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Food assumes a significant part of Axe Creek Landcare activities as a rule and this event conformed in
 The controls for the impressive watering system

Next we all drove to another very productive garden run along permaculture lines with a pond, chooks
and guinea fowl being decorative and contributory parts of the mix. Here neatness and regimentation
seemed to have no place at all but there was lots of enthusiastic growth, especially in the vegie patch.
Again goat manure was showing its benefits. (The Landcare group has a generous goat-farming mem-
ber.) In this garden we saw the advantages of using recycled materials as a self-acknowledged expert
scrounger explained how he created shade for the garden and built chook houses, trellises, garden seats
and so on.

Finally we hurried to the third garden to see it before dark. This enormous garden, the result of a daunting
amount of work inspired by great aspirations has a large area planted with exotic trees, shrubs and roses
which should grow into a wonderful park, given time. Then, at the back, over 100 young fruit trees are
growing. Though apparently the birds get all the produce so far, it seems that when they reach full pro-
duction there would have to be a considerable surplus for people to eat after the birds have had suffi-
cient.

The vegie garden had raised beds and was fully enclosed so predatory birds, roos and rabbits didnt get
a look-in. There were sighs of envy from some of the visitors.

Not your usual vegie garden!

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Food assumes a significant part of Axe Creek Landcare activities as a rule and this event conformed in
that regard.

Water and refreshing fruit were offered at the first garden, sausages and salad at the second and an
amazing and mouth-watering array of desserts at the third. Food seems to encourage conversation
and discussion of ideas. Well probably keep up the tradition

Photos courtesy of Chris Kirwan

EQUIPMENT TO HELP WITH MANY JOBS

Over the years the Landcare Group members have engaged in many different projects requiring spe-
cialised equipment.

As a result, we have accumulated gear that is available to members for use on their own properties. For
example there is a wire spinner acquired to help when we erected exclusion plots to keep wildlife from
eating young seedlings. Pictured here are the long loppers bought to nip twigs with seeds from tall trees
for the seed collecting part of a project. We have spray units to help get rid of weeds, we have planters
for getting the tubestock and hyco cell plants into the ground, we have a trailer and water tank for wa-
tering the young plants, we have various things to help get rid of rabbits. One thing we particularly en-
joy is a relatively new miniature camera on a long pole for seeing which creatures are using the nest
boxes we put up.

All these things and many others are available for members to borrow.

Long Loppers make reaching seeds growing up high much easier.

A GLIMPSE AT PERMACULTURE OVERSEAS

At the March meeting the Landcare group was treated to a fascinating report from Barry Ward, one of
our members who spent six months of last year volunteering in East Timor.

Barry, his wife and 13 year-old son were living in a village outside Dili and working for a Timorese NGO
that provided Inpatient care, TB treatment and community based rehabilitation for children and adults
with a disability.

It seemed Barry spent much of his time responding to the institutions Director who would come to him
saying, Barry, I have a Project

One of the engrossing projects was to set up a kitchen garden, using permaculture principles and
working with local people. Pictures of shoulder high plants showed that in a mere six months it was a
success.

The first job was to build a fence to keep out domestic animals. Barry enthused about the value of
bamboo for this and many other jobs.

Barry commented on the value of local knowledge as well as the introduction of ideas from elsewhere.
His choice of plants, he said, were less hardy than the ones chosen by a local colleague. On the other
hand, the colleague noticed that Barrys sandy soil retained more moisture than his did and so start-
ed copying his use of compost.

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Making compost was easy in the hot wet weather with copious supplies of leaves and animal manure
and a great rate of decomposition.

Things grow fast in the wet season, Barry explained. Pumpkin seeds planted on Friday were up by the
following Monday!

However, the year has a dry season as well as the wet like Darwin and during the dry, in East Timor,
plants shrivel, there is dry, bare ground and many people starve! It is called the hungry season for good
reason.

This project was only one part of what we heard about in this fascinating talk. As well as background in-
formation about East Timor there were descriptions and pictures of other projects. The most successful
ones, according to Barry, were unsurprisingly the ones in which local people played a large part.

Poo Pile!
Need manure for your garden? Bags available from out the front of 125 Axe Creek Rd at
$2.00 each or phone
54393144 for a trailer load at $10-$15.00 per load.
All proceeds to Riding for the Disabled Association.

Advertising
Opportunity!

Your Advert could be here!

Contact us via
axecreeknews@gmail.com
for more details.

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 Axe Creek Cricket Club
The 2016/17 season has concluded and plans are already in place for a big season next year. The club
did not fare so well this season with the first XI finishing ninth place and the second XI finishing last in the
EVCA competition.

Some of the highlights included a Pink Stumps day fundraiser in the match between Axe Creek and West
Bendigo CC. A young West Bendigo side won the game in the last ball of the day. The match was fol-
lowed by a bbq dinner including pink themed desserts.

International cricket was held for the first time ever when English touring team Stanton Harcourt
played Axe Creek in a T20 challenge match. Axe Creek won the game but many friends were made
and the game was a great success.

Two of our all Abilities players were selected for the Victorian Vikings in this years National Carnival. Vic-
toria were the winning team defeating South Australia in the Final. Among the highlights were Axe
Creeks Zach Taig with a 5 wicket haul against Tasmania. Axe Creeks Ben Kenyon was also in the Victori-
an team. (photo over next page)

The club is looking forward to next season and we are seeking players of any age to form 3 teams in the
Emu Valley Cricket Association. If anyone is keen on playing please contact club secretary James
OBryen on 0408 405 640.

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 The Strathfieldsaye Community Church has a hall available for hire for small to
medium size groups with heating, kitchen facilities and toilets all under the same roof,
and plenty of parking.
Contact details are on the sign on the front of our Church at 920 Wellington Street,
Strathfieldsaye. Please note that no alcohol is permitted.

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 Church News
I dont like the heat very much, and as I write this, the weather forecast is for 30-plus degree days. Darn. Its
not like I can do anything about it, is there.

Its a similar feeling to watching the news on television, or listening to the radio news shows. There is so
much happening that causes us grief, anger and even fear. What is going on? How can these things
happen? Obviously the media chooses to broadcast what it knows will gain the most reaction. But how do
we deal with these news reports that leave us feeling helpless what can we do, anyway?

The Christian understanding of the brokenness we see and feel in the world is sin. This religiously loaded
word is often devalued (living in sin is a feeble concept), or thrown around as a weapon (you are a sin-
ner!). In fact, sin is all that prevents us from fulfilling who we were created to be. It is the itch that cannot
be scratched, the impulse of our soul that we struggle to identify, and it causes us to explore all sorts of
ways to overcome it. Every person who lives is afflicted by sin and I am absolutely included in that.

If you have read this far, you might be expecting me to say Now heres what you can do about it and
put forward some ideas like coming to Church, obeying the ten commandments, perhaps even giving up
sex for Lent. This is the religious approach to sin (called Law), and completely dependent on trying to be
good enough to overcome sin. And it doesnt work.

The answer is Easter. Jesus came to our world to deal with sin once and for all. He did this on Good Friday
by His death on the cross. Because of His unique identity as both God and human, He could do what no
other person could He took the whole weight of sin and was crucified with it all.

But that was not the end. He died a human death but was resurrected into new life on Easter Day. Gods
promises of new life were fulfilled. Sin had been overcome by God Himself, long before we knew we even
needed Him to do so. This is called grace.

We still see, feel and know the effect of sin. It is still present in our world and in ourselves. The promise of
Easter is that God has already completed all that is required to overcome sin. The proof is the resurrection
of Jesus on Easter Day. So what can we do about it?

There are times that I need to be out in the heat of the sun (mowing lawns, gardening, fixing fences,
cleaning gutters), knowing that there will be relief (air conditioning, a cool drink, shower) at some stage.
The season will change and winter will come (when I will complain about sub-zero mornings!). Our world
has much wrong with it, and believe me, God knows it. In fact there is much more evil and strife in our
world than we could even imagine. But God has acted, and relief is not through our vain attempts at
goodness or religious deeds, but trust in Jesus and what He has already accomplished. Jesus promised
that He will return and restore order to all things including judgment upon all sin. Trusting in Jesus death
and resurrection is the way to freedom in Christ, and living in grace.

Lent is a time of contemplation of these things and if fasting, giving up chocolate, or perhaps even giv-
ing up sex helps you do this, so be it. It isnt necessary. The ten commandments are the response of Gods
people to His grace to live holy lives. But keeping the commandments for the sake of keeping the them
makes little sense without grace.

Coming to Church however, is an invitation to join others who recognise sin, know we are afflicted, and
celebrate Jesus death and resurrection as the resolution of this itch, this impulse and all that prevents us
from fulfilling our created potential. But dont take my word for it. Read it for yourself in the Bible, try the
Gospel of Matthew. And I am happy to hear from you as you do, if you have any questions.

Happy Easter!

Your local Rev,

Steve.

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 Community News

email us at axecreeknews@gmail.com

Community Gamelan group

Mugi Rahayu is your local gamelan (Javanese music and dance) group. We are from
Eppalock and we practice weekly and perform at various cultural events and fund-
raisers around the district. No experience required and its free.
New members Welcome
Practice every Saturday 2:00 pm at 101 Carneys Rd, Eppalock.
Contact Nita or Aaron phone: 54392678
email: aaronita94@gmail.com

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 Kids Corner
Easter Egg Cookie Slice

Ingredients
125 g unsalted butter room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg large
1 1/2 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup chocolate chips
1 cup mini Easter eggs

Method

STEP 1. Preheat the oven to 180C / 160C fan-forced. Grease and line a 20cm square tin with baking pa-
per, ensuring two sides overhang.
STEP 2. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugars with an electric mixer until combined. Add the
vanilla and egg and continue to beat until creamy. Sift in the flour and baking soda and stir until a soft
cookie dough forms.
STEP 3. Add the chocolate chips and half the Easter eggs and stir. Press the cookie dough into your tin
and spread out as evenly as possible. Press the rest of the Easter eggs on top.
STEP 4. Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Leave to cool completely. Cut into bars
and serve.

This recipe was created by Jessica Holmes for Best Recipes. http://www.bestrecipes.com.au

Carrot garland
Make a colourful carrot garland to celebrate Easter this year. It's an easy paper craft that will keep
little hands busy.

What you need

1 x A4 sheet orange craft paper
1 x A4 sheet green craft paper
Ruler
Scissors
Pencil
Stapler
50cm of string
Hole punch (not essential)
Embroidery needle (not essential)

1. First you are going to cut the coloured paper lengthways into 2.5cm strips.
2. Use a ruler to mark up 8 x 2.5cm intervals on each piece of coloured paper.
3. Now cut out the strips.
4. For the green head of the carrot, fold one green strip at the 5cm mark, fold it again to match
that first length, then fold it four more times, matching the 5cm length each time. You sould end
up with a three-headed carrot top. (See video.)
5. Now fold one orange strip in half. Position the green carrot head you just made in the V of that
orange strip. Make sure the open ends of the folds are facing into the V. (See video.)
6. Staple on the fold of the orange strip.
7. Now bring the two orange arms down to meet each other below and staple them together. It
should form a rough carrot shape, with the green carrot head sprouting out the top. You may
need to push the folds out a bit to form ellipses.
8. Make seven more carrots for your garland and use the embroidery needle, hole punch and string
to join them all together. (See video.)
9. Now string your carrot garland up for Easter.

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