Create and Celebrate will be held Thursday, April 24 from 6:30 to 8 pm in the Gregory Heights cafeteria. Our school community is quite diverse and many of us are eager to learn more about cultures all around the world. We made a plan. We're going to create several projects. A project for each continent. For each project we need a point person with at least one--if not two--persons helping. These projects will be inclusive of arts/ crafts, games, activities and displays of anything relevant to that countries/ continents cultures. FUN!!!
Everyone loves to share foods. Ethnic foods like taquitos, even chips and salsa for North America. Fruit salad with mangos, oranges, watermelon etc., from Central and South America. Foods from Europe are simple and easy--cheese and crackers. Middle East--pitas and hummus! Africa--animal crackers! Asia--assorted varieties of finger foods. Simple and easy shopping at Costco would take care of this for the most part.
We need people who want to have fun crafting and playing games. There was talk of physically active games played a couple of years ago, but we didn't get the names. Do you remember any of those?
We need set-up and decorating tables and welcoming signs in several languages. If we can get a mike maybe we can have some storytellers? Folktales from around the world. I know the King County Library system has professional storytellers. I could call and see who we might find. And if there is anyone in our GH community that has this talent and would like to share it with us, that would be WONDERFUL.
Here are the ideas we have. This is a work in progress. We will meet again immediately following Spring Break. Please feel free to suggest more crafts and games you know of and would like to present. We would rather have a few highly effective crafts and games than too many with too few volunteers. We're leaning toward activities which are inclusive, promote dialogue, FUN, colorful and entertaining.
NORTH AMERICA
Native American- POW WOW DRUMMING
sticks and yarn and feathers for GODS EYES
MEXICO
YARN PAINTING
Day of the Dead Skeletons, cut and assemble?
Decorating small paper bag PINATAS which can be filled
with candy after completing the circuit of projects around the 'world'.
SOUTH AMERICA
Making Drums or Rain Sticks (Peruvian?); we have how to in the big notebook.
EUROPE
Mask making from Italy or France Mardi Gras Masks
Ukranian Egg coloring pages
Switzerland . . . we love Swiss chocolates
MIDDLE EAST
Stringing ankle bracelets with beads and little jingle bells, scarf dancing with hand bells
AFRICA
AFRICAN CARVED MASKS, we need people making masks
ASIA
China - Chinese lanterns made with colorful construction paper
India - Holi Festival powder painting
Japan - Paper Fans on sticks
Korea . . . ?
OCEANIA
Phillipines
Holland - making pin wheels
India - Friendships bracelets
If you are interested in helping with any of these projects, please contact
Lynda Lykes at
lyndalykes@aol.com or 206-935-8788.
