NOVEMBER - It's A Childs World Family Day Home Agency
Diversity Programming Resource
A diverse world is an enlightened world!
Please take some time in your programming to celebrate diversity in your day home with activities, song, play and stories. Involve your families;your families will be honoured and proud to share their culture with you! For example, if a child from in your home have their grandpa visiting from another place, invite them come in to share with the children.
As well, please share your culture to your day home children. Through food, pictures, games etc.
Learning about different cultures around the world helps to build patience, understanding and acceptance of our differences.
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LITERACY
Make the Crayon Box
Using the poem above and this poem below. Explain to the children in your day home why it is so valuable we are all different. Here is an activity to make it more real.
With a black marker on white paper- Draw a large CRAYON SHAPE and make copies for the children to use
What You Do:
Read the poems and ask questions “What is this poem about” What do you think of the poem? Etc.
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Next--The children draw their own portrait on the pre-made crayon patterns--when complete--have children cut out their crayon self-portrait.
The self-portraits are then placed in a "giant box of crayons" shape-- that you can create using construction paper.
The children’s pictures are lined up next to each other and in rows—just as crayons in a crayon box would be.
Hello in Different Languages
The goal of this activity is to heighten cross-cultural awareness, celebrate cross-cultural knowledge, and to say "hello" in many different languages.
1. Visit the link to see how to say hello in different languages
2. Make flashcards or have the children write one on a flashcard
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The Story of Your Name
• The purpose of this activity is for each child to share with the other children the special meaning or reason for their name. Have the parents cooperate in this activity and write down the special meaning or reason for the child’s name to share with the other children.
• This activity gives greater understanding of the child’s background and family to others and helps improve self-worth and respect with others
HELP CHILDREN SEE EACH OF US IS UNIQUE!
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1. Use an inkpad to have each member make a thumbprint in the center of a piece of construction paper. Then, use a magnifying glass to examine the thumbprints. How are they alike? How are they different?
2. Next, have everyone use markers to add to and draw around the thumbprints to create unique thumbprint animals.
3. Discuss: Even though we’re all people, (or part of the same family) our fingerprints are different. And, each of us probably thought of and drew a different thumbprint imaginary animal. We don’t look alike or think
The "Talking Stone"
A preschool education circle time activity.
Often during circle time many preschoolers want to talk at once. One way to help children learn how to take turns is to use a visual clue. Teachers might try using a "talking stick" or "talking stone". This is a tradition with some Native Americans. Hold your 'stick' or 'stone' while you speak and then pass it on when it's time for another person to talk.
You can use a colorful rock or decorate your stick in a special way. This technique helps young children learn to respect the speaker and to wait and listen. Continue with this idea and soon the children will be reminding each other.
Multicultural Book
• Multicultural activity which helps children appreciates different cultures and traditions.
• Materials: construction paper or cardboard, old magazines, glue and ribbon.
• Description:
help children to cut out various pictures from magazines (old National Geographic ones are great). Make a book by using construction paper or cardboard. Children glue pictures on to pages. Punch holes, and add ribbon to make the book. They can also dictate their thoughts about the pictures to you. Write their responses down on that particular page.
• This activity is great for language recognition too!
Create A Multicultural Passport
What to Do:
1. Make each child a booklet which can be used as the passport. Then have each child decorate the front of it.
2. Next you will need to either take a photo of the child, or have them bring one from home to stick on the first inside page of their passport. Write their name beneath it.
3. Each week choose a culture to base your lessons or activities on.
4. At the end of the week give the child a picture of something from that culture to stick in their passport.
5. At year's end you can then present all the kids with their filled passports and a certificate congratulating them on becoming “World Travellers
6. Description: This is a finger play to do with children during circle time.
7. Materials:
Just fingers. You can take the children's pictures with a digital camera and decorated your bulletin board with the poem and the children's pictures. The parents and children loved it!
I AM DIFFERENT: This is a fingerplay poem
DISPLAY IDEA: take the children's pictures with a digital camera and decorated my bulletin board with the poem and the children's pictures.
I am different from my head to my toes
(point to self then to head and toes)
I am different from my eyes to my nose
(point to self then eyes and nose)
I come from a place that is far and wide
(point to self then spread arms wide open)
A place where we all smile instead of cry
(act like you are tracing your lips into a smile
and bring hands down eyes as if you were crying)
I am very different as you can see
(point to self then at a friend)
But I still have a lot of love in me!
(point to self place hand over the heart
then hug yourself)
Diversity Books
10 Beautiful Indigenous Children’s Books to Add to Your Library
All the Colors We Are, by Kate Kissinger
Children are naturally curious about different skin colors and this book does a wonderful job of providing scientific explanations which are age-appropriate, including discussions about the function of melanin, correlations between the environment we live in and our skin color, and the role heredity plays in determining our skin color. This story was chosen as recommended literature by the Parent Council for its use of photography and engaging language. All the Colors We Are helps children understand why we may be so much alike and yet physically different - all at the same time!
Black is Brown is Tan, by Arnold Adoff
Touted by the publisher as being the first children's book to ever feature an interracial family, this poem was first made into a story in 1973. The contemporary version features vivid watercolor pictures depicting a warm and loving multicultural family embracing their own differences with the chorus:
black is brown is tan
is girl is boy
is nose is face
is all the colors of the race
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Whoever You Are, by Mem Fox
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Written by popular children's author, Mem Fox, this story brings home the message that in many ways, we are all alike - no matter the color of our skin, the language we speak or they type of home we live in. According to her own website (), Mem Fox wrote the story after thinking, "We have to get to the kids, while they’re young. Teach them about the similarities between the peoples of the world, not the differences.”
How My Parents Learned to Eat, by Ina R. Friedman[pic]
In this book, a little girl recounts the story of how her Japanese mother and her American father overcame the cultural differences stemming from the type of utensils they used to eat with. When they first met, the girl’s father was embarrassed because he did not know how to eat with chopsticks, while her mother was worried because she did not know how to eat with a knife and fork. Eventually, the couple found common ground by agreeing to use both, and the story ends with the narrator explaining that this has shaped the eating habits for their family - some nights they eat with chopsticks and other nights they eat with a knife and fork. Most important, however, is when the little girls explains that for her this arrangement is "natural.”
This story is one of the preschool books about diversity that can easily springboard into a discussion about the children's own family customs, how they were shaped and how they might be similar to or different from the customs of other families.
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Stinky the Bulldog, by Jackie Valent
Stinky is an adorable little bulldog who finds, after moving to a new neighborhood, that he has trouble making friends because of the unintended connotation of his unique name. Through this story, children will learn that one should not judge others simply on outwardly appearances, but instead strive to accept people (or dogs!) who are different than they are. In the end, Stinky learns that a true friend is one that likes you for who you are on the inside.
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Giraffes Can't Dance- A great book for teaching diversity and acceptance. This blog also offers a link with great activities for teaching diversity, acceptance, and bully prevention
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MATH
Counting with Chopsticks
an activity for fine motor skills that could be used for counting. Have a pair of chopsticks for each child and small objects that are easy to pick up such as cotton balls, small pom poms etc. Have each child count as they pick up the objects. For younger children have the chopsticks that are together already.
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Counting in Different Languages
Have the children practice counting in a different language. Click on this link on You tube for help
MANCALA: AN ANCIENT CULTURAL MATH GAME
SCIENCE
Apple Activity
Have two apples, one red and one green. Ask the children to describe how the two apples are the same and how they are different. Then cut the two apples in half. Show the children that even though the skin color is different, the two apples are both the same on the inside, just like people.
Egg Experiment
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Island Volcano
Explain to your children how many of the island countries (such as Japan) were formed by volcanoes then make a volcano. By forming clay around a baby food jar. Then put baking soda in the jar and pour red colored vinegar in it
You can also make lava (like play dough) for your children to play with by mixing one-part water with two-part cornstarch and then adding food coloring.
ART
Family Tree:
Have each child make their own family tree to display in the day home. It can be as simple or has complex that suits the age of the child.
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Pumpkin Globes:
Here is a great idea to use with the leftover pumpkins from Halloween.
If your day home children are smaller. You can cut out the shapes of the continents for them on separate paper and they can colour them different colours and tape them on.
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Instructions
Materials needed:
- printed continents stencils (stencil 1, stencil2 ), cut out stencils
- pumpkin (8-12 inch tall)
- paintbrushes
- blue & green acrylic paint
- Sharpie markers
Wash pumpkin with soap, dry it well. Paint pumpkin blue, allow drying.
With a pencil, draw the Equator, then using the stencils, draw each continent. Antarctica is missing, because it would be placed on the bottom and would not be seen at all. Make sure to explain this to your child. Older children might want to try to draw freehand, using a globe for reference. Paint continents green.
Allow to dry. With a Sharpie marker, label continents and oceans and go over the Equator again.
GLOBE MOBILES
Materials needed:
- printed stencil 1, stencil 2 (click for the stencils)
- cardboard (cereal box)
- white craft glue
- sand
- paintbrushes
- blue paint
- string or ribbon
Cut out earth circles, trace one of the circles on cardboard. Cut it out.
Paint the areas of water blue. Allow it to dry. Paint glue on the continents and sprinkle sand on it. Allow glue to dry. Glue the two continent circles to the cardboard, so the cardboard is sandwiched between them. Punch a hole in the top and thread ribbon or string through.
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Diversity Paper Chains: Make paper chains with construction paper that represent different children’s coloured skin. Link them together to teach toddlers and preschoolers about multiculturalism
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Kite Art - From Japan
Cut out a kite shape and have each child decorate it with paint, glitter, fabric, crayons, or whatever you can come up with.
Children can take one noodle from each color, dip it in glue and place it on a piece of paper to create a rainbow.
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African Necklaces Plates – From East Africa
Ornaments are worn in most African cultures and often represent a person's level of wealth. Lots of jewelry is made with valuable objects like gold, shells and beads. Children can create their own African collar like the ones worn by the Yoruba tribe of East Africa, to show off their prized possessions and personal style
What You Need:
• Paper plate
• Markers
• Yarn
• Red or Gold Paint
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Colored straws
• beads
What to Do:
1. Create a collar out of a paper plate by cutting through one side and cutting out a large circle in the center.
2. Using a ruler and pencil, draw a grid around the collar.
3. Have the preschool children Color the grid in with bright markers.
5. Have older children cut the colored drinking straws into small pieces, and cut several lengths of yarn as well, each about a foot long. Having slightly different lengths will make the collar more interesting.
6. String the beads and pieces of drinking straws onto the pieces of string, and fasten the ends to they stay on.
7. Carefully hot glue the ends of the strings to the bottom edge of the collar, about an inch apart.
8. Hot glue remaining pieces of the beads and colored straws around the collar of the collar.
Now child can wear his Yoruba collar necklace for all to see!
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PAPER LANTERNS – From China
• Colored paper (construction paper or gift wrapping)
• Scissors
• Glue, tape, or a stapler
|[pic] |Fold a rectangular piece of paper in half, making a long, thin rectangle. |
|[pic] |Make a series of cuts (about a dozen or more) along the fold line. Don't cut all the way to the |
| |edge of the paper. |
|[pic] |Unfold the paper. Glue or staple the short edges of the paper together. |
|[pic] |Cut a strip of paper 6 inches long and 1/2 inch wide. Glue or staple this strip of paper across one end of the |
| |lantern - this will be the handle of the lantern. |
|[pic] |Optional: Make a lot of lanterns and string them along a length of |
| |yarn. Decorate your room! |
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Dream Catchers
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Materials Needed
• paper plate
• scissors
• paint
• yarn
• feathers
• beads
• hole punch
• stickers or markers (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
1. [pic]Cut a hole in the center of the plate, leaving about two inches of edging. Punch holes around the inside edge.
2. Paint the remainder (rim) of the plate. This will serve as your base.
3. Tie a piece of yarn to the end of a feather while the plate is drying. The length of the yarn will determine how far down your dream catcher hangs.
4. [pic]String beads onto the yarn. When you’re finished, tie several knots at the loose end of the string to act as a stopper and secure the beads in place. (Tip: Roll a piece of tape around the tip of the yarn, like an aglet on a shoelace, before starting. This helps young kids slide the beads on, saving time—and frustration!)
5. Repeat step 4 until you have your desired number of strands.
6. [pic]When the paint has dried, randomly string your remaining yarn through the holes bordering the plate. Add a few beads or stickers for extra decoration if you like.
7. Punch one hole for each beaded strand of yarn at the bottom of the plate and tie on your strands of beaded, feathered yarn.
When you’re finished, hang the dream catcher the child can put it on their bedpost or on a wall in their room. If they have a bad dream, simply blow the nightmare into the dream catcher.
Below is a great cooperative diversity art project!
Hand Collage “WE ARE ONE BUT WE ARE MANY”
Children will see that every hand print is different as they work together on a cooperative art project.
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What You Need:
• Colored paints of your choice
• Large paper or cardboard
• Trays to put paint on for hand prints
• Optional: rubber gloves
What You Do:
1. Ask the children, "Who would like to make a rainbow with their hand print?"
2. Ask the children to choose a colour they want their hand print to be.
3. Ask each child to put their hand out, spreading their fingers.
4. Let the child dip his/her hand into the color of their choice.
5. Place the child's hand onto the row of their colour choice.
6. Discuss the differences in size and shape of all the children's hand prints.
PHYSICAL PLAY (FINE AND GROSS MOTOR SKILLS)
[pic]CHOPSTICK PICK UP: During this multicultural activity preschool children will use eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills.
You will need:
Enough pairs of chop sticks for everyone in the small group, lots of large cotton balls, paper plates.
Description:
Explain to a small group of preschoolers that not everyone eats with forks and spoons. Introduce the chop sticks and tell children they are used for eating. Let the children help put the cotton balls (pretend food) on their paper plates and ask them how they could use the chop sticks to pick up the pretend food. Permit the children to experiment with ways to pick up the cotton balls. Then demonstrate how they might pick up the pretend food.
Donkey Piñata
Teach kids about how parties are celebrated in Mexico with a fun "pin the tail on the donkey piñata" game. Explain to kids with pictures or books that in Mexico, many parties and celebrations involve breaking open a piñata.
a. Print out a picture of a large donkey piñata or draw one on a sheet of butcher paper. Tape the donkey to a wall in the classroom.
b. Print donkey tail coloring sheets for the kids to decorate with crayons and markers. Help them cut out their donkey tails and give them each a piece of tape to attach to the back.
c. Take turns blindfolding the kids, spinning them around and giving them a chance to pin the tail on the donkey piñata
SOMBRERO HAT GAME
1. Place as many objects (balls, blocks, small toys) as there are players around a Mexican hat. The sombrero with its wide brim works well.
2. Have the children sitting in a circle around the hat.
3. Name an object or color (or even both, for example, green block) and ask a child to run to the hat, pick up the named object, and run back to his space.
4. Continue this game until all children have had a turn.
For older children, vary this game by using clues like shapes, numbers, and letters.
Maracas
Preschool and kindergarten children use fine motor and sensory skills when they create these Mexican instruments
Materials: Cut up squares of tissue paper (all colors), glue watered down, small water bottles, beans, rice or anything to make noise.
Description: Take your small water bottles and paint them with watered down glue. Put colored tissue paper all over and even on the top. After the bottle is covered do it once more. Then, paint all over the two layers with watered glue again and let it dry. It will look very glossy and with the bean or rice inside it will make beautiful music.
YOU will either need to put the beans in ahead of time or let the children, they love doing that. Once it is dry children can do a dance or musical dance with their new instrument.
Marble Bridge (Germany)
1. Create a bridge toy by cutting five evenly spaced arches on the open edge of a shoebox.
2. Turn the box upside down on the floor and place a number above each arch.
3. Call a number and ask the child to roll a marble into that arch.
DRAMATIC PLAY
Change your dramatic play center throughout the year to keep it fresh and exciting. Click on the links below to see pictures.
• Bakery
• Post Office
• Vet Clinic
• Doctor’s Office
• Flower Shop
• Grocery Store
• Ice Cream Shop
• Pizza Parlor
• Holiday Wrapping Station
• Hot Cocoa Stand
• Chinese Restaurant
• Space Center
• Mexican Restaurant
• Camping Theme
• Apple Orchard
• Pumpkin Patch
Here is an example for role playing a Japanese restaurant or meal. Japanese meals include many noodles. It is a custom to eat noodles on your birthday because long noodles are believed to mean you'll live a long life.
Ramen Noodle Cup
1. Styrofoam cup(s)
2. Ramen Noodles
3. Thinly Sliced Vegetables
4. Hot Water
5. Foil
6. Chopsticks
What to do?
• Fill your Styrofoam cup with ramen noodles
• Add any variety of the vegetables. Examples: carrots, radishes, mushrooms, cabbage and pea pods etc.
• Fill the cup with hot water and seal with foil
• Let the cup set for a few minutes
• Eat with Chopsticks!
Set up a Japanese Eating Area
Japanese meals are served on low tables. People sit on small cushions on the floor.
For Japanese style meal:
▪ Remove your Shoes,
▪ Sit on a big pillow around the low table
Another Dramatic Play Area Idea: Asian Theme
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MUSIC/SONGS
It's A Small World
It's a world of laughter, a world of tears
it’s a world of hope and a world of fears.
There's so much that we share that it's time we're aware
it's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all; it's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all; it's a small, small world.
Hello “Around the World “
Song for Teaching "Hello" in Many Languages
David & Jenny Heitler-Klevans
Chorus – with echo :)
Hello
Aloha Hawaiian
Bonjour French
Dumela (doo-MAY-lah) Tswana (Southern Africa)
(Verse 1 :)
Around the world, when people meet
in a home or on the street
they say hello and it’s so neat
So many different ways to greet
Chorus :)
Hello
Hola (oh-la) Spanish
Shalom Hebrew
Konichiwa (ko-nee-chee-wah) Japanese
(Verse 2:)
Some wave “hi” and some shake hands
some bow down and some just stand
Applaud, embrace or kiss a hand
So many ways in different lands
(Chorus :)
Hello
Jambo (jahm-bow) Swahili
Salaam Arabic
Kaixo (kai-show) Basque (Spain)
(Verse 3 :)
Greeting the young or greeting the old
you can be shy or you can be bold
an “r” can be flat or it can be rolled
but a smile is the same around the world
(Chorus :)
Hello English
Terve (tehr-vay) Finnish
Privyet (preev-yet) Russian
Namaste (nah-mas-tay) Hindi (India)
(Bridge :)
At the break of day or when the sun goes down
an elder or a child, a stranger or a friend
In the South or the East, in the North or the West
how we say hello, it all depends -
(Chorus :)
Hello, Hello
Molo, Molo Xhosa (South Africa)
Ni hao, Ni hao (nee how) Mandarin (China)
Zdravo (zdrah-vo) Slovenian
(Chorus:)
Hello, Hello
God dag, God dag (go dag) Norwegian
Aqui, Aqui (ah-kee) Mohican
Guten tag (goo-ten tahg) German
(Chorus:)
Hello, Hello
Hey mon, Hey mon Jamaican
Iakwe, Iakwe (ya-kway) Marshallese (Marshall Islands)
Chao ban (dow bahn) Vietnamese
Konichiwa (ko-nee-chee-wah) Japanese
Namaste (nah-mas-tay) Hindi
Hello.
FINGER PUPPET PLAY
Materials:
Just fingers. I also took all of the children's pictures with a digital camera and decorated my bulletin board with the poem and the children's pictures. The parents and children loved it!
I am different from my head to my toes
(point to self then to head and toes)
I am different from my eyes to my nose
(point to self then eyes and nose)
I come from a place that is far and wide
(point to self then spread arms wide open)
A place where we all smile instead of cry
(act like you are tracing your lips into a smile
and bring hands down eyes as if you were crying)
I am very different as you can see
(point to self then at a friend)
But I still have a lot of love in me!
(point to self place hand over the heart
then hug yourself)
OTHER MULTICULTURAL SONGS
Seasme Street Rosita
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES [pic]
Did you know that many children's games that are favorites here in America originated from England?
• Hopscotch is a game that spread to many countries. Use chalk to form a simple hopscotch pattern with the numbers from one to ten.
• Beanbags work well as markers. If preschool children have difficulty hopping, let them try jumping with both feet.
Star Catching: From Africa
1. Divide the players into two groups: Stars and Catchers.
2. Set up twoboundaries about twenty feet apart.
3. Catchers: Stand in the middle of the two boundaries
4. Stars: Stand on one side of the boundaries
5. Catchers: Say "star light, star bright, how many stars are out tonight."
6. Stars: Say "more than you can catch!"
7. The stars run across to the other end and try not to get tagged. The winner is the last person to get caught
WINTER TAG (NATIVE INDIAN)
5 or more players, ages 5 and up, played outdoors in the winter.
Players prepare the course for the game, consisting of a maze of parts in the snow over a field or ice. The parts should be wide enough for one person to run on, about one meter wide.
What follows is a simple game of tag played in lanes in the snow. Players must stay on the paths always, but the person who is it may jump from path to path in pursuit of his opponents.
This imaginative modification of tag in the winter could lead players to inventing their own unique games for the winter season. The Scottish people did just that when they invented curling from the summer game of bowls. Source: Thunder Bay Multicultural Association
DISPLAY BOARDS
Puzzle pieces of the children in your day home They can make one for each member of their family and piece them together.
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What Do You Need?
Prior to this activity have the children bring in an item that is related to a custom or tradition their family participates in. This could be a picture of a type of food they always eat on Saturday, or a symbol of a holiday they celebrate. You will also need to have a large piece of paper and a marker.
What's Next?
• Explain to the children that every family has their own customs and traditions that they participate in
• Write at the top of a large piece of paper "Our Customs"
• Invite the other children to tell you what customs or traditions they celebrate with their family children may have a hard time thinking of these. To help them, remind them of holidays you know their families celebrate like Christmas, or Hanukkah, or routines they gave before they go to bed like reading a story.
• Write what the children talk about on the large piece of paper
Extension Idea
▪ Invite any interested children to draw a family portrait. As they draw, ask them to share their work and record their words, when appropriate. Remind them that they can also label the drawing with their name as well as the names of their family members.
▪ Hang all of the portraits in the classroom
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Display Board of Aboriginal Natives of Canada
Materials: Large piece of brown butcher paper, paint, paint rollers, precut symbols (canoe, teepee, turtle, deer etc.).
Description: The provider will precut a bear or deer shape from the brown butcher paper. The children place precut symbols (cut from tag board) onto the brown butcher paper. The children will roll their rollers into the paint and then they will roll over the symbol. Next, they lift the symbol and look at the designs they have created.
Diversity Snacks
TWO FRIENSHIP SNACKS
#1 FRIENDSHIP SNACK MIX: Have each child bring in a half cup of their favorite snack (You can offer parents suggestion at this point: cereal, raisins, crackers, etc) When you get all of the snacks-- mix them all in a huge bowl and serve them for snack.
Talk about how different things go together to make something very good. This helps get the ideas of diversity, sharing, cooperation, and trying new things across.
#2 Do the same as above, however, USE FRUIT instead of snack mixes. Have each child bring in one can... or piece of fresh fruit...and then talk about how different things go together, to make something very good. This helps get the ideas of diversity, sharing, cooperation, and trying new things across. (Donate any left-over cans to a shelter)
INTERNATIONAL SNACKS
VANILLA MILK SHAKE--AMERICA
This frosty beverage is an AMERICAN classic. Combine 2 cups vanilla ice cream, ¾ cup milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract in a blender. Process until smooth. Makes 6 servings.
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MANGO LASSI--INDIA
Chilled yogurt drinks, called lassis, are a favorite drink in INDIA. In blender process 2 ripe mangoes (peeled and seeded), 2 cups plain yogurt, and 4 ice cubes. Add milk and honey to taste. Makes 6 servings.
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HAM & MELON-ITALY
This snack is eaten as an appetizer in Italy. Cut a cantaloupe in half, cut off the rind, and remove the seeds. Cut each half into 8 thin wedges. Wrap a slice of ham around each melon wedge and serve. Makes 8 servings.
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TORTILLAS
Made with either corn or wheat flour, these flat rounds are a staple of the Mexican diet. Combine 2 cups masa harina (corn flour) and 1 teaspoon salt in a large bowl. Gradually add 1 ½ cups warm water and mix with your hands until mixture forms soft dough. Form into 15 equal balls. Flatten each ball into a thin 6-inch circle. Fry tortillas in a dry pan over medium-high heat for about three minutes, turning once. Serve warm. Makes 15 tortillas.
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GO HERE FOR MULTICULTURAL RECIPES
Interesting World Food Facts
|[pic] | |Philippines and Indonesia are the |
| | |world's leading producers of Coconut. |
|[pic] | |Most Bananas are grown and |
| | |shipped from Central America. |
|[pic] | |Africa's Ivory Coast is the largest |
| | |producer of cocoa beans. |
| | |Cocoa beans are where chocolate comes |
| | |from. |
|[pic] | |Olives are grown mostly |
| | |in the Mediterranean region. |
|[pic] | |Asia is where most of the |
| | |world's rice comes from. |
RESOURCES
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TAKE A CULTURAL QUEST: (AGES 8 & UP)
ONLINE CULTURAL QUIZ: (Ages 8 & UP)
Tolerance and Understanding Games: (Ages 1-9)
Tolerance and Understanding: Its My Life (8 & UP)
Multicultural Dolls
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