It’s my pleasure to write the introductory post about Tonga for our series Global Learning for Kids. If you have posts about this country and its culture, please link them up at the end of this post. Last week, I talked to my children about Tonga. For my son, who is in first grade, I made a Tonga […]
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Christmas cards can be a wonderful tool for teaching kids about traditions around the world! Here are some fun ideas of ways you can make globally inspired Christmas cards with your kids Globally Inspired Christmas Cards Find a world-friendly theme Lights are one of my favorite themes for global Christmas cards. These simple advent cards are simple
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If you’ve ever been to a pow-wow or listened to Native American music, you’ve probably heard the great big sound of a group drum, called a pow-wow drum. Here’s a craft that will allow you to recreate the type of drumming done at pow-wows and get the experience of making that type of music together
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Earlier this week the mailman brought something wonderful to our doorstep. A book, and not just any book – one that brought a whiff of India to our home, one I could use to talk about Diwali with my little ones. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning. My husband and
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North America has many different native cultures from the Arctic to South Mexico, and from the West Coast across to the East Coast. Where to start, and how to write up one blog post on Native American cultures when there are entire university degrees about any one of these interesting and diverse cultures? The children’s
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