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Family Culture Collage for the Newcastle Culture & Heritage Festival

Newcastle Families,

The Newcastle Culture and Diversity committee, along with the Newcastle PTSA, are

hosting a Culture & Heritage Festival on February 4th from 6-8 PM. The theme is “Roam

Around the World”. We invite all families to create a Family Culture Collage to be

displayed at and leading up to the Festival. This is a chance to talk about your family’s

heritage and share your cultural pride with our community.

Directions: Very simply, we are asking each family to make a simple one-page collage-style display of images and words

that reflect aspects of their family’s culture, heritage or world experiences.

Steps:

1. Start with any standard sized paper

2. Add images, phrases, descriptions, drawings or anything you want to share

a. Cut and paste on a computer.

b. Use family photos

c. Use Google images

d. Draw, color, make art

Feel free to use the examples below as templates or inspiration (including the Mellish family collage).

3. Return your Family Culture Collage to the teacher at any time but no later than February 2nd. These will be

sent to the office to be included in our displays around the school and at the event. If you do not have a printer

at home, you can email the document to [email protected] to be printed and turned in for you.

IDEAS: Things you could include: Images or descriptions of…

Travels, travel pictures

Cultural sites

Celebrations and holidays or traditions

Favorite family activities

Cultural heritage artifacts or symbols

Maps

Flags

Phrases in home language

Foods

Favorite sports teams

Religious traditions and symbols

Be creative and have fun together. Share what you want to share about

your family, heritage, culture or world experiences!

Pictures Here: examples

[Family Name]

List of meaningful cultural

aspects of your family.

Ex:

Ah-ma (grandma)

Noodle Soup

Sunday Church

Christmas Morning

Hanukkah

Dancers with flowing skirts

Summers at the beach

Soccer matches, followed

by Pizza

Example 2: Heritage Country – Family name and Country of Origin (maybe include a family picture too…)

Korea

My son’s

Chinese Name

I grew up with

Taco Sunday

Family Favorite

Foods:

Potstickers

Eggrolls

Nakano Flank

Steak

The Mellish Family: Walla Walla meets Taiwanese America