This bulletin board activity gives students an opportunity to ask as many questions as possible about different cultures. Give students a large stack of National Geographic magazines and tell them to cut out any pictures that are interesting and that they want to learn more about. Give them a poster board on which they can glue the pictures to create a collage. Attach the poster board to the bulletin board and make the heading something like, "We Want to Learn." This activity can introduce the students to the cultures presented in the pictures and additionally, can indicate about what your students are most interested in learning.
This bulletin board activity is a simple way to teach students differences among languages. Cut or purchase small 3 x 5 inch index cards that say hello in a different language on each. Some examples of languages you can use are French, Norwegian, Turkish and German. Place the cards on the board and use the heading, "How Do You Say Hello?" Supplement the board by printing out cutouts of various cultures and having students color them in. Then, you can take their pictures and place their heads on the colored figures on the board.
This bulletin board activity teaches children about flags and other details about different countries. Create a board with 20 to 30 different printouts of flags from various countries. Above each flag, leave a blank to be filled in later. At the beginning of each school day, ask the students to choose one flag and then have them try to guess which country it's from. After they guess, tell them some facts about the country and write the country's name in the blank. After 20 to 30 days, the students will be familiar with the 20 to 30 new countries.
This creative project can truly ensconce the multicultural nature of your preschool. To complete this activity, you will need to reach out to a willing school from another country. Contact a teacher from a school that is willing to exchange their blackboard with yours. Your students names would then be written on their board and the names of the students from the other class would be written on your board. Tell your students about the students in the other class and have them decorate the board with pictures about life in the United States. Have the other class do the same. Take some high resolution pictures of your board and send it to the other class and have them reciprocate. Have the classes trade a video of both the creation of the boards and the reaction to each board as well. Questions can also be exchanged.