Welcome to the Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop!

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The Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop is a place where bloggers can share multicultural activities, crafts, recipes, and musings for our creative kids. We can’t wait to see what you share this time!

Created by Frances of Discovering the World through My Son’s Eyes, the blog hop has now found a new home at Multicultural Kid Blogs.

This month our co-hosts are:

Creative World of Varya on Multicultural Kid Blogs
Castle View Academy
Wise Owl Factory

Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop is a place for you to share your creative kids’ culture posts. It’s very easy, and simple to participate!
Just follow these simple guidelines:

  • Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, or Facebook. Please let us know you’re following us, and we will be sure to follow you back.
  • Link up any creative kids culture posts, such as language, culture, books, travel, food, crafts, playdates, activities, heritage, and holidays, etc. Please, link directly to your specific post, and no giveaways, shops, stores, etc.
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  • Please grab the button code above and put it on your blog or the post you’re linking up. You can also add a text link back to this hop on your blog post. Note: By sharing your link up on this blog hop you are giving us permission to feature your blog post with pictures, and to pin your link up in our Creative Kids Culture Feature board on Pinterest.
  • Don’t be a stranger, and share some comment love! Visit the other links, and comment. Everyone loves comments!
  • The Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop will go live on the 3rd Sunday of the month. It will run for three weeks. The following blog hop we will feature a previous link up post, and if you’re featured, don’t forget to grab the button below:
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Here’s my favorite from last time:

Celebrating-Musicians-in-Picture-BooksA chapter book disguised as a picture book biography? A children’s picture book about the backstory of the birth of jazz in New Orleans? A picture book about the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane? A musician who had difficulty seeing? A musician who sold his first song for 37 cents? Pragmatic Mom has reviewed all these books as well as others in her post about musicians in picture books.

I taught grades 4 and 5 at FAIR (Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Resource School) middle school for a few years. There were never enough stories about musicians, painters, dancers, actors, and artists. Such stories and books were in constant demand. The focus of the students was on learning and participating in all the music, art, dancing, painting, acting, and performing arts as they could possibly fit in a single day. Sitting still was not their thing! They were active learners and so the videos in Pragmatic’s Mom post would have been nice to refer to, also, to allow for some movement after reading. We read books such as like I Like the Music by Leah Komakio, books about Thelonious Monk, and stories such as The Carnival of Animals and Pieter and the Wolf.

I don’t know if all the books described by Pragmatic Mom were available at the time I was teaching at FAIR, but her list would have been fabulous to have for that population of students. Pragmatic mom also has a list of famous woman musicians, which has a link from the first paragraph in her blog post. She wouldn’t leave out the woman.

Thank you for linking-up, and we can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to!


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If you work with children learning about music notes, you might like this free printable game.

music-notes-game-for-4-4-time-free-PDF

The Carnival of Animals blog post has both an English and a Spanish version for active learning along with the story.

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Children who are learning about musical instruments might like this book and free work page.

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You might also like the blog post and free educational printable for Victoria Torres: Face the Music.

Victoria-Torres-Book-Companion-Freebie-Face-the-Music-PDF

 
 

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