USA (Florida) - US State Swap package

Karen sent us this picture for her Florida package!

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Estonia - Worldwide Culture Swap package

Thanks to Renate Nathalie for sending this picture of her family's package representing Estonia!

 

The package included:

• Newspaper Tallin
• Brochures about Estonia and Tallin
• A recipe book, 
• A children's book, 
• Christmas tea, 
• Piparkok, 
• Chocolates, 
• Christmas napkins, 
• CD, 
• Christmas card, 
• A magnet on the fridge, 
• A national icon and ribbon, 
• A calendar for 2013, 
• Children's coloring books and schedule week, 
• Christmas boots with handle my son

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USA (Michigan) - US State Swap package

Here is a photo of the Michigan package that Sharon's family sent for the Worldwide Culture Swap.

The package contains

• A Petoskey stone (the state stone, which is actually a fossilized coral found only in this area), 
• A Detroit Tigers key chain, 
• A Ford matchbox car, 
• Some dried cherries, 
• A book about Michigan, 
• A Michigan coloring book (not shown), 
• A photo of our family, 
• A map of the state of Michigan with personal notes ("This is where we live," "This is where you can find Petoskey stones," etc.) 
• And an acrostic in which we described our home state using each letter from the word Michigan. 

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April Culture Swapper is now live!

Welcome to our monthly Culture Swappers Link up!

You can link up your blog posts or upload your own pictures showing us anything that you would like to share related to culture, geography, traditions, customs etc where you are from.

We are excited to say that this link up will now be co-hosted by Becky from Kid World Citizen and Leanne from All Done Monkey  so linking up here will mean that your blog posts will automatically appear on their blogs too :)

We will feature some of the links on our Facebook page and on this website throughout the month.

Here are a few of our favourites from last month (in addition to the ones featured during the month)....

Here's glimpse of  Large and Small Village Life in India from Mama Smiles.

From the Piri-Piri Lexicon we loved the Portuguese Caldeirada (fish stew).

And we also really enjoyed the Flag store Field Trip from Toddling in the Fast Lane.

Thank you to all of you that took the time to share with us - we'll continue to feature your submissions throughout this month too.

And now on to this month's Culture Swappers Link up....

The rules

• Link up any family friendly activity, craft, recipe, articles and posts that say a bit about your nationality or one that you are learning about
• You can submit more than one link so come back throughout the month to share your activities
• By linking you are giving us permission to feature your activity on our website and Facebook page.
• Please grab a Culture Swapper badge from the left hand sidebar and put it somewhere on your blog (or add a text link to us in your post)
• Sorry, no giveaways or shops

A new Link up with start on the first day of every month.

Spain - Worldwide Culture Swap package

Here's a great Worldwide Culture Swap package submitted via our Facebook page by Nichele!
As you can see this package represented Christmas traditions in Spain as was one of Deb's super mini swaps!  Keep your eyes peeled for more!

Send us a link to your blog posts related to worldwide culture and we will feature them on the site, include a link back to your site and of course give you full credit. Take a look at our monthly Culture Swapper Link Up for information.

France - Worldwide Culture Swap package

Thank you to Virginie for this wonderful package representing France!.

This package was sent around Christmas (yes I know I have a LOT of catching up to do with posting pictures lol! but do keep sending them in).

Send us a link to your blog posts related to worldwide culture and we will feature them on the site, include a link back to your site and of course give you full credit. Take a look at our monthly Culture Swapper Link Up for information.

Malta - Easter Mini Swap package

Thanks Alicia for sending us this picture of her family's Easter Mini Swap package!

Alicia tells us what was included:

• Traditional Easter Recipe – Figolla
• Figolla cutter in the shape of a lamb
• Traditional Easter Maltese sweets - Carob Sweets "Karamilli tal-Ħarrub"
• A locally produced Chocolate Easter Egg decorated with colored icing.
• A book about the Stations of the cross for children.
• A table cloth with the map of Malta and facades of some local churches.
• Information about Maltese Easter Religious Traditions with photos and links.
• Our family traditions with photos.

 Keep your eye out for our next mini swap coming soon!

(USA) North Carolina - Worldwide Culture Swap package

Cindy sent us this picture of a package that she prepared to represent North Carolina!

Here's what was inside to represent USA:

• 2 puzzles of the US
• Flash cards about each individual State
• US Flag
• US money
• Postcard from Mount Rushmore
• 3 books about: each state, US Presidents, and the Declaration of Independence
• 1 US Flag bean ball
• CD with pictures from around the US

And to represent North Carolina:

• Doughnuts to represent Krispy Kreme (founded in NC)
• Lighthouse Craft
• Dogwood craft (state flower)
• NC map
• Moon Pie
• 2 information packets about NC

Send us a link to your blog posts related to worldwide culture and we will feature them on the site, include a link back to your site and of course give you full credit. Take a look at our monthly Culture Swapper Link Up for information.

New Zealand - Worldwide Culture Swap package

Alice sent in this picture of her family's Worldwide Culture Swap package from New Zealand!

Oh I'd love to see the New Zealand recipes!

Send us a link to your blog posts related to worldwide culture and we will feature them on the site, include a link back to your site and of course give you full credit. Take a look at our monthly Culture Swapper Link Up for information.

Panama - Family friendly field trip

Here's a post featured from The Travelling Classroom that was submitted to last month's Culture Swapper Link Up!  

It's a wonderful post about a family friendly field trip in Panama - aren't these photos amazing!

Click here to read the rest of the post.

Send us a link to your blog posts related to worldwide culture and we will feature them on the site, include a link back to your site and of course give you full credit. Take a look at our monthly Culture Swapper Link Up for information.

March Culture Swapper is now live!

Welcome to our monthly Culture Swappers Link up!

You can link up your blog posts or upload your own pictures showing us anything that you would like to share related to culture, geography, traditions, customs etc where you are from.

We are excited to say that this link up will now be co-hosted by Becky from Kid World Citizen and Leanne from All Done Monkey  so linking up here will mean that your blog posts will automatically appear on their blogs too :)

This great song from Tiny Tapping Toes for children from Mexico is called Báte, Báte Chocolate – Time To Mix The Chocolate! 

Connecting family and soul shared some great Lunar New Year Activities for Toddler.

How about learning a bit about Greece and trying a Baklava sent in by The Educators spin on it!

We will feature some of the links on our Facebook page and on this website throughout the month.

Here are a few of our favourites from last month (in addition to the ones featured during the month)....

Thank you to all of you that took the time to share with us - we'll continue to feature your submissions throughout this month too.

And now on to this month's Culture Swappers Link up....

The rules

• Link up any family friendly activity, craft, recipe, articles and posts that say a bit about your nationality or one that you are learning about
• You can submit more than one link so come back throughout the month to share your activities
• By linking you are giving us permission to feature your activity on our website and Facebook page.
• Please grab a Culture Swapper badge from the left hand sidebar and put it somewhere on your blog (or add a text link to us in your post)
• Sorry, no giveaways or shops

A new Link up with start on the first day of every month.

China - New Year Celebrations

In last month's Culture Swapper Link Up there were so many great Chinese New Year celebration posts that we decided to showcase a few of them in their own post here!

Heart Shaped Fried Wontons


Chinese New Year Celebrations


Recipe - Nian Gao


Chinese New Year Lanterns


Craft - Chinese Noisemakers


Chinese New Year Snake Craft

Thank you to everyone that linked up a post and don't forget to link up again this month!