On the fun side, share some meaningful playtime with your toddler: Play with nativity scene dolls, craft a menorah out of clay, or have your toddler help place a set of candles in
a Kwanzaa kinara to represent the seven principles of the holiday.
On the fun side, share some holiday crafts with your child: Make a homemade advent calendar, create a nativity scene out of cardboard and fill it with little dolls, craft a menorah out of modeling clay, or make
a Kwanzaa kinara to hold the symbolic candles representing the principles of the holiday — unity, self - determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.
Not exact matches
This book cuts to the essentials, with each two - page spread giving a very short explanation about one of the Nguzo Saba — the seven
Kwanzaa principles — and showing the corresponding candles on the
kinara.
Two ears of corn, which symbolize the children, the unity cup, the
kinara (the candleholder which holds 3 red candles, 3 green candles and 1 black candle) and fruits and vegetables that symbolize the year's harvest rest on the Mkeke during
Kwanzaa.
Make a place mat to hold your
kinara for a
Kwanzaa celebration.
Lighting the
kinara is one
Kwanzaa's most symbolic rituals.