Anyone else ready for spring?? This year, try celebrating the season with your little ones by learning about another culture with these Holi crafts and activities! Holi is a joyous festival of colors celebrated every spring by Hindus around the world. Marking the beginning of spring, it is usually celebrated at the end of February […]
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Our family hails from the United States, the land of many cultures, but we currently live in Mexico. We speak English fluently and Spanish not-so-fluently. My family is mostly Polish with a mix of European decent. Brad’s family is German and American Indian, plus some. As you can see we are a pretty diversified bunch
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Here in the Netherlands, the celebration of Chinese New year is not so common. When I asked my children what Chinese around the globe celebrate at this time of the year they were clueless and I was glad I had this activity in mind to introduce to them the Chinese New Year celebration. I presented
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I must admit that fashion doesn’t immediately come to my mind when I think about ways to teach my children cultural appreciation. I’ve never been a very fashionable person and for me, clothes are for practical things like comfort, warmth and protection. That is until I had my first child. This girl came out kicking and
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“Chinese New Year,” as we sometimes call the holiday in English, is also known throughout the world as “Lunar New Year,” or the “Spring Festival” (春節 in Chinese). It is widely celebrated across Asia in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Tibet, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Even outside of Asia, many countries with large
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