Lesson plans and activities for kids, based on my books

Cousins Forever, Happiness Street, Nelly’s Box, Summer with Grandpa, Sunny’s Magical Headband, Where am I from?

My children’s books Cousins Forever, Happiness Street, Nelly’s Box, and Summer with Grandpa are available for purchase on all Amazon stores in many bilingual editions, in 50+ languages, including all 24 official EU languages!

Cousins Forever -> 50+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language.
Happiness Street -> 45+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language.
Nelly’s Box -> 20+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language.
Summer with Grandpa -> 20+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language. And here in Spanish!

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for resources in Greek!

The books are available in the following languages:
• Afrikaans • Albanian • Arabic • Armenian • Basque • Bosnian • Bulgarian • Catalan • Chinese (Traditional & Simplified) • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dutch • English • Estonian • Filipino / Tagalog • Finnish • French • Galician • Georgian • German • Greek • Hebrew • Hindi • Hungarian • Icelandic • Indonesian • Irish • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Latvian • Lithuanian • Macedonian • Malaysian • Maltese • Norwegian • Polish • Portuguese (PT) • Portuguese (BR) • Romanian • Russian • Serbian • Slovak • Slovene • Spanish • Swedish • Thai • Turkish • Ukrainian • Vietnamese • Welsh

Read-aloud videos of these stories in many languages, plus “Sunny’s Magical Headband” in English, can be found on PEaCH bilingualfamily.eu YouTube channel here. You can find an interview and a read-aloud of “Where am I from?” by me at the “Read With Carylee” show, here.

Where am I from?

Educator’s guide / Lesson plan in English. Download it here.

Coloring page: You can click on the image to download it, but you will also find it included in the lesson plan above.

Passport coloring and writing activity

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We write our names on the front side, countries, and places we’ve visited on the backside. On the inside pages, we can use stamps and stickers or draw representative items from the places we’ve visited. We can add as many internal pages (blank A4) as we like.

Language portrait coloring activity

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Draw your language portrait! Using the attached human outline, children choose a number of coloring pencils that equals the number of languages they speak. Then, they are free to decorate their human outline in any way they wish, to symbolize the many languages they speak. Here’s an example from a school visit in Malta.

How to Raise Confident Multicultural Children

Click here to read this guidebook for free and in full!

Happiness Street

I found this PDF online (unfortunately I don’t know who’s the author and what’s the source of the file) featuring three lovely activities (written in English) which are perfectly tied to the theme of this book.

Resources in Greek

Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Οδός Ευτυχίας – Happiness Street. Download it here.

Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Ξαδέρφια για πάντα – Cousins Forever. Download it here.

Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Το κουτί της Νέλλης – Nelly’s Box. Download it here.

Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Καλοκαίρι με τον παππού – Summer with Grandpa. Download it here.