December Meeting

Merry Christmas!!!!   Feliz Navidad!    Feliz Natal!    Froehliche Weihnachten! Nollaig Shona Dhuit!    Meri Kirihimete!   God Jul!    Nadolig Llawen! 

Our December meeting was packed with fun, activities and international food! Yum!

The families did a great job decorating the tables representing their countries. They were all amazing and we had a competition with a clear winner.... Norway!!!

Congratulations Rhianna and Victoria, your table was brilliant!! Check out the pictures below.

We also had our usual games: The Ball Game, The Continents and their Countries, The Flag Game plus a few games provided from the tables. 

We would like to wish you all a peaceful Xmas and a New Year filled with love, peace, health and friendship.

 Happy New Year!!!

The Continent Game

The beautiful decorated tables

The winning table!! Well done Norway!!!

The Flag Game

Dancing Around the Christmas Tree

A Norwegian tradition

November Meeting

In November we introduced a new game called "The Continents" where the children can identify countries belonging to that particular continent. It was great fun!! We had the name of the countries pinned on the walls and the children had to run and grab a country for the continent we were playing. 

The country we talked about in November was EGYPT. We had many books about Egypt with amazing pictures of the country, the people and, of course, the pyramids!!

For the games, we had the mummy game, building a pyramid with megablocks, building a human pyramid, roll a turban around your head, and also drawing your own hieroglyphs.

 The meeting finished with our usual snacks and coffee for the parents.

Enjoy the photos!

Checking out the pictures at the books

Make your own mummy!!!

Building a pyramid with megablocks. Great team work guys!!!!

Watch out.... it's a human pyramid!!!

A head turban

Thank you for visiting our blog!

Here you can find information, pictures and dates for our future meetings. 

This is just our first post. I will be posting more pictures soon from our past meetings. Please come back in the near future and enjoy the pics and also information on our future events!

The International Children's Group meets once a month at the Uniting Church, Raumati Beach.

We encourage the children to experience different cultures and respect diversity in our community.

There's 1 hour packed with activities and then time for the kids to play free and the families to meet each other.

If you would like your children to be part of it, give us a call. 

It's $2 per family and please bring a piece of fruit to share.

Limited numbers. For more information call Renata Spies: 04 905 8206


Check out some of the activities the children enjoyed in the past:

In our August meeting we talked about Australia and Japan. Here are some pictures of the day!

                                    We painted our faces like the Aborigenes in Australia

                                    Finding the countries on the World Map is always fun!

                                                  We also had fun with our sack race. 
                                                        Jumping like Kangaroos!!

                                   Eating with chopsticks like the Japanese was very challenging!!

                                         Even the grown-ups had fun with the Kimonos!!

                                     
                                After all the activities the children have time for a fruit 
                                                                 snack and free play

                             
                                  Parents also have time to relax and meet other parents
                                                                    over a cuppa