Kwanzaa Crafts and Activities for Kids

Kwanzaa, which began in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, is a week long celebration that honors those of African heritage. It ends with a gift giving and a feast. The kwanza celebration begins on Wednesday, December 26 and ends on Tuesday, January 1, 2020. These super cute and easy kwanazaa crafts contain the traditional three colors. The black represents the people, red represents their struggles, and the green signifies the future.

Which of these kwanzaa crafts for kids will you try first with your toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students.

Kwanzaa Activities for Preschoolers

Each Day of Kwanzaa celebrates one of these principles (names in Swahili)

• Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
  • Printable Kwanza Paper Doll
  • Kwanza Hat Craft – this cute hat craft can be worn all through the week-long celebration and celebrating day 1 and the unity of the community including common roots including dress style.
  • Kwanza Flag Craft
• Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
  • Hand Print Kinara – capture your child’s handprint in this keepsake craft that helps kids realize what day 2 is about – to be themselves and speak for themselves.
  • African Statue from TP Roll
• Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together.
  • Kwanzaa Gift Pouch
  • Corn on the Cob Craft
  • Kwanzaa Mat

Kwanzaa arts and crafts

These are a great Kwanzaa crafts for kindergarten for in the classroom, at home, or for homeschoolers!

• Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
  • Harvest Basket Craft
  • Kwanzaa Candle
• Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
  • Adinkra Clothing Pattern Printing
• Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
  • African Thumb Piano
  • African Drum Craft
• Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
  • Kwanzaa Candle Craft
  • Egg Carton Kinara Craft
  • Cute Kwanzaa Wreath Craft
  • Fun Kwanzaa Kinara Craft

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