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You love being a teacher because you get to help the children learn about the world. People from different places, who speak different languages and believe different things, live in your preschool classroom.
Children are naturally curious about people who look or act differently than them. This is a great chance to talk to your students about how important it is to be different.
These hands-on activities about different cultures for preschoolers are a fun way to teach young kids about other people and their ways of life.
Diversity dinner party
In many cultures, food is at the heart of the community. This makes it a great way to teach young children about traditions from other cultures that are different from their own. Ask the families in your class if they have any traditional dishes they'd like to share with the class.
Try to include healthy dishes from different countries that might be different from what children have eaten at fast food restaurants, like fresh guacamole, Bánh m, homemade hummus with pita chips, or naan with mild curry.
How it teaches about diversity: Some children may fear new things, including food. One of the best ways to learn about a new culture is to try its food. This activity gives children a safe way to try new foods from other cultures and gives families a chance to talk about their own food traditions.
Passport travelers
This is a fun way for kids to become world travelers and find out about the different places their classmates come from. First, talk to the parents and kids in your class to learn about their backgrounds and any important cultural traditions. Then, have the kids make their own passports for the trip they are going to take around the world.
Every student will have a chance to talk about where they are from during the year. Tell the kids to bring things like pictures, their favorite snack, or their country's flag. Everyone in the class gets a new passport stamp for each country they "visit" in class. If there aren't many different kids in your class, give them a map and let them choose where they want to go.
How it teaches kids about diversity: It helps them see that even though we all come from different places, we are all pretty much the same. They also learn that there are different kinds of people everywhere, even in the classroom.
Unity Wreaths
Young children are visual learners. What better way to represent the diversity in your classroom than with a unity wreath? This simple wreath can be created by using flesh colored construction paper, paper plates, and glue.
Teachers can outline children’s hands using the children’s corresponding flesh-colored construction paper, have either the children or teachers cut out the hands, and then glue them onto a paper plate to make the wreath.
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