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Elevate Your Multicultural Programs: Engaging Approaches for All Ages

Discover innovative strategies for creating a successful multicultural program that fosters understanding and appreciation among children. Learn to share essential information without stereotypes while connecting children's lives across cultures. Engage the senses with interactive experiences, from foods to sounds, and inspire awe about the diversity in landscapes, traditions, and lifestyles worldwide. Utilize trusted sources, encourage interaction, and embrace interactive and crafty fun to create memorable, impactful learning experiences that resonate with young learners.

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Elevate Your Multicultural Programs: Engaging Approaches for All Ages

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  1. One World, Many Stories, Endless Ideas Spicing Up Your Multicultural Programs

  2. A Successful Multicultural Program Will… …share basic facts/info without resorting to stereotypes AND …relate children’s lives here with children’s lives there – what is similar and what is different [food, clothing, houses, schools, surroundings]

  3. A Successful Multicultural Program Will… …encourage interaction AND …appeal to the senses – have props that bring the culture’s/country’s smells, tastes, textures, sounds to the kids

  4. A Successful Multicultural Program Will… …leave children with: • an awareness that there are kids growing up in different countries/ cultures/ circumstances who are essentially like them • a sense of wonder at the differences in landscapes, foods, houses, languages, etc., to be found around the world

  5. Unbiased, Relatable Info… • Use multiple perspectives • Use trusted sources • CultureGrams, Facts on File, CAMIO • CIA: The World Factbook • National Geographic Kids • Look for nonfiction series written from kid perspectives • Explain statistics concretely

  6. Interactive, Sensory Fun… Wasabi peas and pickled ginger (Japan) Tabasco sauce (Cajun) Moon cakes (China) Mut (Vietnam) Pan de Muerto (Mexico) Smoked salmon & blueberries (Tlingit) Taste – if you’re allowed food, it can really open up fun, memorable discussion & experiences

  7. Interactive, Sensory Fun… Sights & Sounds – between iTunes, YouTube and other file-sharing sites, it is amazing what you can find • Wodaabe faces

  8. Interactive, Sensory Fun… Sights & Sounds – between iTunes, YouTube and other file-sharing sites, it is amazing what you can find Wodaabe faces Maasai jumping Hmong ball tossing Languages Puerto Rican coqui Muslim call to prayer Traditional music

  9. Textures/Touch – this can involve some serious networking! Llama wool Interactive, Sensory Fun…

  10. Textures/Touch – this can involve some serious networking! Llama wool Embroidered Guatemalan fabrics Indian silk saris Handmade Indonesian shadow puppet Interactive, Sensory Fun…

  11. Interactive Active Fun… • Shadow puppet theater

  12. Interactive Active Fun… • Shadow puppet theater • Parade w/masks – Mardi Gras & Tet

  13. Interactive Active Fun… • Shadow puppet theater • Parade w/masks – Mardi Gras & Tet • Chinese calligraphy

  14. Interactive Active Fun… • Shadow puppet theater • Parade w/masks – Mardi Gras & Tet • Chinese calligraphy • Yoga

  15. Interactive Active Fun… • Shadow puppet theater • Parade w/masks – Mardi Gras & Tet • Chinese calligraphy • Yoga • Chopstick races • How to bow properly as a Japanese girl or boy • Mehndi • How to wrap a sari

  16. Interactive Crafty Fun… • Adinkra stamping

  17. Interactive Crafty Fun… • Adinkra stamping • Indonesian Shadow puppets

  18. Interactive Crafty Fun… • Adinkra stamping • Indonesian Shadow puppets • Masks – calavera mask for El Día, dragon mask for Tet/Moon Festival, Mardi Gras, Vejigantes of Puerto Rico

  19. Interactive Crafty Fun… • Adinkra stamping • Indonesian Shadow puppets • Masks – calavera mask for El Día, dragon mask for Tet/Moon Festival, etc/Mardi Gras, Vejigantes of Puerto Rico • Aborigine dot paintings • Maze designs [Hmong stitchery] • Kamishibai story pictures • Firework paintings for Chinese New Year

  20. BOOK-based Programming

  21. Why Folktales • Folktales come from the oral tradition & are usually easy and appropriate to read & share aloud • Folktales come from the traditional cultures of a place/people and are usually authentic • Folktales usually convey a moral or message or story that the kids will find familiar and easy to understand or relate to because of their own literary repertoire

  22. General Program Format • Theme/topic • Map /globe • Book • Cultural/historic information • Mood Setters [music, food, realia, videos, photographs] • Craft/activity

  23. Brandon BensleyChildren’s SpecialistGlenwood BranchGreensboro Public Librarybrandon.bensley@greensboro-nc.gov

  24. ANANSE NTONTAN "spider's web" • Symbol of wisdom, creativity and the complexities of life • Ananse, the spider, is a well-known character in African folktales.

  25. AKOKO NAN = hen’s foot • symbol of nurturing and discipline • Proverb – the hen treads on her chicks, but she does not kill them.

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