New Year Adventure Game “New Year Around the World”
On the 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th and 14th January, a special event was held in the Jewish Museum’s Tolerance Centre for junior schoolchildren. Where to celebrate New Year? In China or Japan? In Israel? In the Arab Emirates? India? Or should we stay at home in Russia? This is a question we begin to ask ourselves even in summer. How hard it is to make a choice, when there’s only one New Year, and so many interesting countries…
At the Tolerance Centre, the junior scholars were given the opportunity in a single hour to fly all around the globe, celebrating New Year in five different lands.
This entertaining game – an odyssey through space and time – enabled the kids to get to know the national traditions for marking the New Year in different countries, and not in words only, but by personally taking part in the festivities.
The children later delighted their loved ones with New Year souvenirs that they had made with their own hands, sharing with them the many interesting facts they had picked up about the traditions linked with this holiday.
Event aims:
- To foster the formation of a tolerant world-view among scholars;
- To help schoolchildren build inter-cultural competence and interest;
- To aid the growth of erudition and knowledge among scholars about the cultural diversity of the peoples of the world.
