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Kwanzaa Can Be Even More Of A Celebration For Your Family When You Do Crafts Together

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

 By Gail Leino

Kwanzaa is a special holiday for many people all over and celebrating it is very important. When you decorate for Kwanzaa it is always great to get the kids involved in the decorating. One great way to do this is to have them make their own decorations with crafts.

A fun and easy craft is an African Drum. You will need to have an empty coffee can, glue dots, glue gun (low temp) or tacky glue, tape, safari animal stickers, construction paper, colored tape and scissors. The kids will need to cut a piece of yellow construction paper so that it fits around the coffee can. Glue the paper to the can and then the kids can decorate it their own way.

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Create the Best Holiday Gift Basket This Kwanzaa Season

Friday, December 26th, 2008

By Tl Kleban

There is a holiday approaching which millions will celebrate yet little is known about it in the mainstream. This holiday is Kwanzaa. It basically means first fruits of the harvest, in Swahili, the East African trade language. It beens a holiday for years yet only now is it starting to become popular among the masses.

Kwanzaa is celebrated by sitting down each day to discuss then celebrate each one of the holiday’s seven principles a day. There are times when gifts are exchanged, but not all the time so that it does not become commercially driven like many holidays have become. Actually, if gifts are exchanged that are only done so to to children and be handmade or hold some cultural relevance.

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