Barack Obama Inauguration Activities for Kids
If you are excited about the historic inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Obama, and you are a parent, you may also feel a little bit of pressure over how exactly to get your kids involved in this event in an age-appropriate way. Yesterday I posted where you can watch the Inauguration live, but there are also several events tailored just for kids to celebrate Obama's inauguration in New York City. I've also included some inauguration activity ideas and must read books.
[Baby got Barack T-Shirt from shoptoughcookies.com]
Inauguration Events
Obamathon! Inauguration Day Family Party
NYC Explorers
388 Atlantic Avenue
January 20, 9am-6pm
$10 All Day
Brooklyn Playspace NYC Explorers is bring DC to Brooklyn with an Inauguration Day Family Party. There will be Obama-themed crafts, a moon bounce, and video coverage of the Inauguration events in DC so the kids can have a blast and you can still see the Inauguration too. Thanks for doing this NYC Explorers!\
Kids Inauguration Party
Borders Columbus Circle
January 17, 2pm
FREE
Celebrate America, democracy and new beginnings with art activities, games, a scavenger hunt and an official oath ceremony.
This day in History – Inauguration Day 2009
Staten Island Children's Museum
January 17 and 18, 1, 2 and 3 pm.
FREE with Museum Admission
Kids explore important historical events and create their own newspapers to commemorate this historic Inauguration.
Dear Mr. President
Children's Museum of Manhattan
January 10-19
FREE with Museum Admission
Children express their hopes for a brighter future, which will be compiled into a letter to send to President Obama. Kids can also email their hopes to kidshopes@cmom.org
Martin Luther King and Inauguration Day
Scholastic Store Soho
January 17, 3pm
FREE
Kids get to experience the journey of Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. with a reading of March On, written by Christine King Farris, his older sister. Kids will also learn all about Election 2008 and the importance of inauguration day.
In addition to these events, here are some Inauguration Activities you can do with kids at home:
If You Were President
Scholastic has a little website where kids can see what it's like to be president. They must choose their cabinet, make a balanced budget and then be interviewed by the press about their decisions. At the end it creates a newspaper article about their presidency with their own real quotes.
PBS Kids' Speak Out
Watch videos of kids talking about what they'd like to see Obama do in office to make the world a better place, then vote for the ideas you think are best. Kids can also submit their ideas for Obama.
Inauguration books
Obama truly does have an incredible life story that brought him to where he is today. The story has been turned into an inspiring children's book, Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope that is a great way to share the importance of his Inauguration with children.
Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama tells his story for older children.
And, I haven't read either Dreams from My Father or Audacity of Hope, but I have heard rave reviews and am eager to get my paws on them.
Tomorrow we'll have more Inaugural-related events.
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It amazes me the people who
It amazes me the people who supported Obama's point of view during the election WITHOUT reading his books!! I would recommend reading those books yourself before you recommend them to others.
You make us '60s moms proud.
You make us '60s moms proud. Keep up the good work!
Join a good-luck card for
Join a good-luck card for President Obama on Flickr.
Have kids draw a four-leaf-clover or other good luck symbol and hold it up. Take a pic. Then post on the Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/goodluckpresidentobama/
Not a flickr member? You can post on http://creativezazz.com/fun-stuff/good-luck-mr-president
This is an fun way for kids to join other kids from all over to take part in the inauguration celebration. If they are older than can even help take the pics.
For busy moms you don't have
For busy moms you don't have to host a Obama party. Borders and major book stores will be having Obama parties this weekend so checkout your local book stores for any free activies for the family.
Reading and Obama you can't go wrong.
This awesome...any leads on
This awesome...any leads on similar events for the DC area??
Try GoCityKids.com for DC
Try GoCityKids.com for DC activities.
I read both of Barack
I read both of Barack Obama's books and then proceeded to also read the children's versions to my kids. Cindy - consider the fact that she TRUSTS the people who endorsed his books and is merely passing along this information. What "amazes" me is the narrow-minded / mean-spiritedness of so many people. It is time to put away the sore-loser attitudes and show our children what it means to be patriotic: supporting our 44th president, who is a very good man.
STOP PULLUTION it is
STOP PULLUTION it is killing our earth and some day if it does not stop it could kill our animals then the trees and if the trees die than the people on earth will die from no oxygen because trees give us air instead of carbon dioxide, and also i really want to stop global warning and keep our earth and people healthy.
Speaking of Barack
Speaking of Barack Obama:
Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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