A Kid's Guide to Latino History: More than 50 Activities (A Kid's Guide series)

A Kid’s Guide to Latino History features more than 50 hands-on activities, games, and crafts that explore the diversity of Latino culture and teach children about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Hispanic American history.  Kids can: *     Fill Mexican cascarones for Easter *     Learn to dance the merengue from the Dominican Republic *     Write a short story using “magical realism” from Columbia *     Build Afro-Cuban Bongos *     Create a vejigante mask from Puerto Rico *     Make Guatemalan worry dolls *     Play Loteria, or Mexican bingo, and learn a little Spanish *     And much more Did you know that the first immigrants to live in America were not the English settlers in Jamestown or the Pilgrims in Plymouth, but the Spanish? They built the first permanent American settlement in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. The long and colorful history of Latinos in America comes alive through learning about the missions and early settlements in Florida, New Mexico, Ari