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World Cup Fun
The 2010 soccer World Cup is being held in South Africa, and all around the world people old and young, male and female will be looking forward to a feast of football. Whether you love or loathe the ‘beautiful game’ are lots of fun World Cup related things for you and your kids to do.
You can make the World Cup both a fun and educational experience for your kids by taking the opportunity to learn something about the 32 countries competing.
Visit FIFA’s website for a full list of the nations taking part.
Then get out an atlas or globe and find out the capital cities of all the competing nations and which continent each country is in.You could try and make drawings of the national flags of the countries taking part. Many such as France, Italy and Holland are simple and so are good choices for younger children.Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Angola or Ecuador will be more of a challenge for an older child.
Test your cooking skills with some national dishes from competing nations. Easy ones are tacos or chilli from Mexico pasta from Italy, but how about Sushi from Japan or Couscous from Tunisia? Dress up in the national and ethnic costumes of competing nations – how about a Spanish flamenco outfit, a grass skirt from the Ivory Coast or a Japanese Kimono?
Of course, you could get a football out and have a kick around – especially if you’ve been sitting in front of the TV all week!
There are lots of great sites on the web for children interested in football.First stop should be the FA’s website Grassroots section which has information about kids and school football. Footy4Kids has a wealth of information about training and coaching youth football from pre-school age written be an FA trained youth coach.
For rainy days some nice soccer themed games and printables for kids can be found at Kaboose. We have our own printable Soccer Puzzles and Soccer Colouring Picture.
You can find your soccer party stuff for when England win the final (!) at PartyBox and Party Delights.
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