Ideas for NDD
There are so many ways you can celebrate
National Diversity Day at home, at work, at school, or in your
church/synagogue/mosque, etc. We have put together a partial list below
to get your creative juices going!
- Host a pot luck meal where participants bring in dishes that represent their ethnicity or their favorite ethnic foods.
- Invite speakers from different backgrounds to speak to your group about their traditions, or the challenges they have faced related to diversity.
- Have a diversity-related coloring contest or essay-writing contest.
- Create a craft that represents different cultures.
- Have a celebration or festival that brings together different ethnic groups to celebrate.
- Bring together different religious groups to learn about each other or pray for world peace together.
- Explore different cultures through art forms, poetry, music, crafts, traditional costumes, language, etc. Have an art show featuring local, diverse artists, or a poetry reading, or a concert.
- Rent movies that deal with diverse topics.
- Classroom project: Have each student write down something that makes them unique, different, diverse, or something that interests them that is diversity-related on a piece of paper and their name. Put the slips of paper in a container, shake up and have each student draw one slip. They have to research that topic and either do an art project, write an essay, or create something related to that topic (song, poetry, dance, etc.) that will teach the rest of the class about it. Fun way to learn about each other and about a different topic.
- Show short videos that feature different ethnic dances and music.
- Display a photography exhibit of different cultures--could even feature the students/families or employees/families of your organization.
- Have a display or flag ceremony of different nations' flags.
