Kwanzaa

Featured Kwanzaa

Fruit Salad - For our Kwanzaa celebration we ask each child to contribute one fruit to our snack that day. The teachers bring one, too. Each child helps cut up their fruit and put it in the bowl. This helps to reinforce the 7 kwanzaa principles.

Mosiac Kinaras - The students will glue the red, green and black construction paper aquares on the candles on the kinara. The students will use yellow crayons to color the flame. My kindergarten students loved this activity!

Kwanzaa Memory Book - The plastic bags will be the pages of your book. Stack them so that th bottoms of the bags are on your left. From the brown paper bag, cut a cover that folds around the plastic bags to form both the front and the back of the book. (The cover should be a little larger than the pages.) Make sure all ...

Fruits of Kwaanza - Matuda ya kwanza means the first fruits, referring to the yearly harvest. Place sugar cone on table, have children fill with fruit and vegetables, or candy representing fruit. Eat for snack - enjoy

Mkeka (place mat) - take your black, red, green material cut with scissors into strips interweave the strips using one colour at a time fold over the end edges and hot glue gun them to stay in place. You can also use construction paper instead of material. This makes a wonderful mkeka (place mat) for the kwanzaa celabration... ...

Light the Kwanzaa Candles - Cover the toilet paper rolls with construction paper(3 red, 3 green and 1 black). Make red, green, and black candles by rolling construction paper around a pencil. Secure the ends with tape and slip the pencil out. Use the yellow construction paper to make the candle flames for each candle. Discuss ...