During stressful times the best method to relax is a nice cup of warm tea. Once again, it seems our Gryffindor Prefect Griseldis has another idea for a new errand that was inspired by her Chinese cousin who bought a box of beautiful handmade goldfish tea bags from Taiwan. She also noticed that most students really love animals or magical creatures so why not let them make teabags in shapes of their favorite animals? In this errand, the participates will be given the materials they need for crafting teabags in animal shapes and pick all different kinds of tea leaves that can make Green Tea, Black Tea, Red Tea, or Oolong Tea. Of course, they are not making it just for themselves but also creating a gift for their friends or families to be able to enjoy tea and looking at the adorable or majestic animals shaped teabags to cheer them up.

Since it is now June, the weather will be very nice and the best place to do this errand is at the Courtyard [Accio]. The House-elves will arrange a few tables and chairs for groups of students to sit and craft their teabags. While the participates try to craft their animal-shaped teabags, they can also enjoy some British biscuits and warm tea.

Prerequisite: None
Word Count Requirement: 1000 words
Group Type: Any, you may work in small groups or do solo threads.
Reward: 4 Chocolate Frogs + 6 Sickles
Month: June
Deadline: 30th of June, 2020
Location: Courtyard

Materials for teabags: Teabags are commonly made of filter paper or occasionally of silk cotton or silk. Scissors, sewing supplies, embroidery thread, paper for tags (construction paper, old book pages, etc.). The House-elves will provide these for the participates.

Tea Leaves: You are free to ask the House-elves which tea leaves you would like to have, for example, you want to make a few teabags that are filled with green tea leaves but you can also mix two different kinds of tea leaves together, it's up to your creativity.

Tiny Surprise: We are in a Wizarding School after all so even the given materials are enchanted. When the hot tea pours on the animal-shaped teabags, it will suddenly become alive until the tea is cold, similar to a lively chocolate frog. For example, a goldfish teabag will start swimming around in the teacup.

Animal-shaped teabag examples:

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What you saw here are just examples to give you some inspiration, everyone is free to make all kinds of animals, a monkey, a cat or a turtle, or even magical creatures like a Niffler, Unicorn or even a Hippogriff. You have the freedom to be creative and there is no limit on how many animal teabags you want to make.

Important Information
You can gain a maximum of:
10 Sickles each calendar month

Once you completed your errand, make sure you post here with word count. If it's a group thread please add the names of the students who joined your errand as well.

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𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒹𝒾𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈
1/2 tablespoon hibiscus petals for love and divination
2 teaspoons lavender florets for sleep
1/2 teaspoon mugwort for psychic dreams
1/2 teaspoon rosehips for love
1 rosebud for love

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WC= 1585 words.

Thread
Words: 1070
Errand Completed!

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