Kwanzaa Tips, Tutorials

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Activities, Crafts, Recipes
Learn Swahili, Observance Guides

GENERAL/MIXED/MISC.

Happy Kwanzaa (table settings, history, recipes) - What's Cooking At Holland

How Does It Work? (feast guide; recipes for benne cakes & sweet potato pie) - AFRO Americ@

Kwanzaa (activities, crafts, recipes) - Idea Box

Kwanzaa (crafts, game, recipes) - Mrs. Stewart's Kindergarten

Kwanzaa Activities, Recipes, and Crafts (Karuma invitations, African stationary, pick a pepper soup...) - Zawadi Writers

The Official Kwanzaa Website (greetings, gifts, decorations, celebration procedures & more)

ACTIVITIES

Daily Guide For Observing Kwanzaa - Dorothy Winbush Riley

Learn Swahili

Kwanzaa Mini Unit (lesson plan with activities and crafts) - TeacherLINK

The Seven Symbols of Kwanzaa Made Eco-friendly - Care2

The Seventh Night of Kwanzaa: Imani - Jessica B. Harris

CRAFTS

Get Your Kuumba in Gear!: Patterned Kinara Candle - HGTV

How To Make A Handmade Greeting Card - Knowledge Hound

Kente Cloths - Kinder Art

Kinara (7 branch candlestick) - Kinder Art

Kwanzaa (brief craft instructions: mkeka, Unity cup, Kwanzaa flag, kinara...) - Preschool Education

Kwanzaa Bowl - HGTV

Kwanzaa Craft Projects (hat, mat, kinaras, cards, jewelry...) - thebestkidsbooksite.com

Kwanzaa Crafts (string of African flags, placemat, candles...) - Enchanted Learning

Kwanzaa Crafts (family history book, kinara centerpiece, mancala game...) - Kids Domain

Kwanzaa Crafts (candle holders, animal bead necklace, African dress paper dolls...) - Making Friends.com

Kwanzaa Crafts For Kids (kinara, hands wreath, napkin holder, candle decoration...) - DLTK

Kwanzaa Window Candles - Amazing Moms

Make An Oware Game For Kwanzaa - Amazing Moms

Weave A Kwanzaa Mat - Bry-Back Manor

Weave an Eco-friendly Kwanzaa Mat (scroll down) - Care2

RECIPES (Also see our extensive 'African Recipes' section)

A Kwanzaa Recipe: Jamaican Jerk Chicken - Avenue Vine

African Blessing Soup - Sesame Workshop

Benne Cakes - Donna L. Washington

Big Mama's Kwanzaa Recipes (kelewele/spicy fried plantain, oven barbecued drumettes, papaya & chile soup, peanut butter,sweet potato and winter squash soup...) - Big Mama's Recipes.com

Coconut Biscuits - DLTK

Free Quanzaa Recipes - The Holiday Spot

Healthy Kwanzaa Recipes & Menus (kumquat tangine, moyo de poulet fumé, cumin-roasted almonds, quick cheese grits, pineapple with mango coulis...) - Eating Well

Kwanzaa (sweet potato bread, fried okra, black-eyed pea fritters...) - Food Network

Kwanzaa (scroll down to Recipes: carmelized ripe plantains, herbed cornbread, pickled black-eyed peas...) - Global Gourmet

Kwanzaa: Feast For The Soul (Senegalese soup, sweet potato soufflé, coconut rum pie...) - Epicurious

Kwanzaa Karamu Menu (Moroccan Cornish hens with orange-almond couscous, Kenyan collards, benne cakes...) - Wen Zientek

Kwanzaa Recipes - Sankofa

Kwanzaa Recipes from the Cyber Kitchen - Mimi's Cyber Kitchen

Kwanzaa: Soul Food Celebration ( chicken & sausage gumbo with rice, coconut biscuits, classic cornbread, down home sweet potato pie...) - ChefMom

Microwave A Delicious Holiday Meal (baked curry chicken, coconut sweet potato casserole, coconut cream pie) - Ann Steiner & Cici Williamson

Traditional Kwanzaa Menu (from 'A Kwanzaa Keepsake': North African carrot salad, red snapper fillets in Creole court bouillon, classic Southern succotash) - Jessica Harris