Kwanzaa

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your child and a great book. You can learn about the celebration of Kwanzaa while enjoying stories that are simply fun.

Get creative this holiday season with these easy and affordable Kwanzaa decorations ideas.

Teach your kids about African flags while assembling this colorful project. The Kwanzaa decorations in this arts & crafts activity are fun and easy to create.

Here's a recipe for delicious West African Benne Cakes, which you can make for Kwanzaa.

Create your own clay jewelry by molding Kwanzaa symbols into beads to celebrate the season.

Make a Kwanzaa calendar out of felt, and use it year after year to mark the days of the holiday.

Here are instructions for making a straw mat -- called a mkeka -- for your Kwanzaa celebration.

Follow these instructions to decorate your own unity cup for your Kwanzaa celebration.

Follow these simple instructions to make a pasta necklace, which can be given as a Zawadi gift.

Have your preschool child cut animal shapes out of clay to create Zawadi gifts!

One of the symbols of Kwanzaa is zawadi, or gifts. A handmade gift like this necklace will be treasured.

In this art activity, your toddler paints a Kwanzaa place mat with a corn cob.

This necklace in traditional African and Kwanzaa colors is an easy art project for a toddler.

Teach your toddler to build a Kwanzaa chain made of colored construction paper, and use it to decorate your home.

Help your preschooler make his own mkeka, the woven mat on which other Kwanzaa symbols rest.