Family Culture Night: Germany

Seeing as how it's Oktoberfest in Germany this month, we decided to have our family culture night centered on Germany.  My husband and I have both lived in Germany for a few years and we love German food, the culture and the traditions.  I'm sure that we'll be using many of their traditions in our family for years to come.

After Daddy and Baby got dressed in their matching "Fussball" shirts, we ate the traditional wurst (with Amazing German mustard), german potato salad and apple strudel for dessert.  We also enjoyed drinking rootbeer (since we don't drink alcohol).

 

Daddy took the role of providing the activities for our evening.  He had fun talking about German culture and he enjoyed teaching us a German song.  Then he made a flag with paper, crayons and a spoon, turned on some very lively German music and off they went...marching around the whole house.

To say that our little girl was "in heaven" would be an understatement.  She loved this fun evening with her daddy (and mommy too)!

What culture do you want to introduce to your family?  Any good ideas for next month?

Family Culture Night: Hungary

When my husband and I were newly married, we decided that we wanted our kids to really get to know different cultures and countries.  We both love traveling and wanted to help our children be aware of the world around them.  From this formed a monthly "family culture night." We take one evening a month and choose a country to focus on.  I make dinner using recipes from the country we're focusing on and we play some games, sing songs, learn some facts, etc... about that particular country.

This month we focused on the country, Hungary.  To tell you the truth, I picked it because I really wanted to make the recipe for Hungarian Chicken Paprika.  Despite how it looks, it really was quite tasty.  It reminded me so much of Eastern European cusine...yum.

During dinner we learned a little about the country of Hungary (did you know the man who invented the rubik's cube is from there?) After dinner we headed into our family room and learned a few songs that we sang in English and Hungarian (ok, our Hungarian pronunciation was probably not all that authentic, but we tried).  We also colored in a Hungarian flag.

I'm already getting excited for our next culture night.


Any suggestions on countries we should try?