How to Survive Lion Dance and Monkey Dance

Unrecorded, Japanese

Top: Lion Dance Under Red Plum Blossoms, 1730-1740

Bottom: Monkey Dance Under White Plum Blossoms, 1730-1740

One of a pair of 6-fold screens ink, color, and gold pigment on paper

Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

Group 1

First, look for food and find somewhere to hide. You need to find water and pomegranates for your health. You have to not get hurt when they come to find you. If they come to find you, you could play dead to trick them. You can hide behind the tree and use bark to blend in. Keep some leaves on it. You will need something sticky to make the leaves stick. If you get cold, have the guy with a blue dress coat help you find a coat to keep you warm.

Then, drink from the river and eat a meal. You could cook. You will need to find some oil. Take the wood off the tree to create the fire and keep you warm. To cook, throw the food in the fire. After you throw it in the fire, pour some water on it. Use the knife that is made from metal in the tree to cut a piece of the food for everyone to have a piece. When you run out of food, hunt for some more in the forest.

Next, you walk to the river and wash yourself. You need to get soap. The flowers and waters will create the soap and make them smell nice. You then can build a small house in the woods. You can build it with bricks or wood. You will get the bricks from really old houses and wash them off in the river. The wood will come from the trees!

Last, you can do your hair and use your fingers to brush your hair. You use the river water to wash and you use the soap that you made earlier from flowers and water. You make electronics from the lightning. Use wood and metal to create a phone.

Group 2

First, you need to go inside the house. There are lots of demons in this world. Bring your food and water and snacks, like candy and popcorn, inside the house and lock yourself in the closet and keep a shoelace to open it.

Then, in case you need to fight the demons, bring a sword. The sword stays on the side of your backpack with your other supplies. Your sword can be any color, such as pink. The sword is medium to long size, and when you pull it out, it gets even longer.

Next, the boy will get help. He just broke out of jail, and his name is Jeffrey. He has black hair and a blue shirt. He looks like a bodyguard, but he’s actually a nice person. He goes to get the police as backup to fight the demons.

Last, use your sword and your fire and ice powers to defeat the demon. Use your hands and sword to make the powers happen. By the time Jeffrey and the police show up, you have already defeated the demon. The police will let you and Jeffrey stay out of jail for being a hero.