Manipulatives

1. Costumes! Costumes are always a fun hands on manipulative you could use in class if

you were reading a play, doing reader’s theatre, or simply reenacting a story or book in

class.

2. A great way to enhance a multicultural/language art curriculum would be to have the students do artwork for the culture you are learning about. For instance if you were learning about Haiku, you could have the students write their own Haiku poetry and then have a lesson on Japanese art and have them illustrate their Haiku poem. Or if you were reading a book about Native Americans, you could have the students learn to do sand painting.
3. Another way to learn about different cultures as you are reading about them would be to learn about music from that culture, and have the students learn to play some basic music on instruments. For instance, students could learn to play some simple pieces on the ukulele or they could learn to play some Latin rhythms on marimbas, congas, shakers, timbales, or clavas.