Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Games, crafts and activities to promote understanding of cultural diversity including individual spiritual development
Also see the cooking section for relevant cooking activities

• A Box of Love at Christmas
• Cinnamon Dough Christmas Tree Decorations
• Skin Colour Matching
• Hanukkah Dreidel Decoration
• St. David's Day Daffodil 1 .......... 1st March
• St. David's Day Daffodil 2 .......... 1st March
• St. David's Day Daffodil 3 .......... 1st March
• About Holi - which begins on the day after the full moon in the month of Phalguna, which usually falls in March
• Coloured Carnations
• Hello and Goodbye in different languages -list resource to use in activities
• Leaf Activity with poem

• About - Purim - Jewish Festival
• St. Patrick's Day Hat - 17th March
• St. Patrick's Day Lunch - 17th March
• Jewish Passover - Information and Activity
• Holi - Holika a two face doll
• Holi - Henna Tattoos or Mehendi
• About - Lantern Festival - Chinese - 15 days after the start of Chinese New Year
• Chinese Lanterns
• Butterfly in Chrysalis
• Caterpillar
• Scarecrow
• Making a Kite - fun for a windy day or weather theme
• - Video Tutorial
• Video Tutorial
• Video Tutorial
• Video Tutorial
• Video Tutorial

Links to other sites: -

(please note you will be leaving the Childminding Help website when clicking these links - Links are offered in good faith, Childminding Help cannot be held responsible for their content. Please notify me if links change or don't work, thank you)

• www.bestschooltrips.co.uk The site only lists venues that offer real educational value and has ideas and inspiration for all age groups.
• www.ukschooltrips.co.uk - a free online resource to plan educational days out. It is quick and easy to use. You search to your exact criteria including: age of children, type of visit, geographical area, etc and then the results suitable for you come up and each venue gives lots of useful information about how they can help you to make your visit fun and educational, plus lots of the venues offer really great discounts to educational groups, including child minders.
• Crafts and Activities by Country
• Printable downloads of people which you can then dress in printable outfits, hair etc.
• Bible Crafts
• Jewish Activities
• Jewish Purim activities
• Christmas Around the World - how Christmas is celebrated around the world
• East West Education - great little site for children's dressing up clothes. They also do dolls clothes and puppets. Charity organisation.
• St. David's Day colouring charts - St. David's day 1st March
• Holi
• St. Patrick's Day - 17th March
• Educational Resources for Special Needs - free printable picture cards
• Making Friends - free downloads to make multi cultural paper dolls and other crafts
• Baby Games website games to play with baby
• Themed Colouring Pages - People with disabilities
• The National Autistic Society - The website includes information about autism and Asperger syndrome, the NAS and its services and activities
• Ambulance colouring
• Animals info
• Dinosaurs
• Disability info
• Disaster planning
• Insects
• Interactive games
• More animals info
• Nature site 1
• Nature site 2
• Pictures including multicultural

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