How One School's Multicultural Night Brought the Community Together
A school multicultural night is a great way to bring families together to learn about and celebrate the diverse cultures that make up your community. Plan this fun school event using ideas from Anaverde Hills PTSA and our free school multicultural night flyer and social media graphic.
Dianne Valladares is President of Anaverde Hills PTSA in Palmdale, California. We when read about the school's multicultural night for families, we knew we had to share Dianne's story with the PTO Today community! Plan your own school multicultural night using ideas from Anaverde Hills event and our FREE school multicultural night flyer and social media graphic.
Our school's first multicultural night was held in 2024. It started as a dream of mine to showcase the many diverse cultures in our community!
I started out by inviting teachers to make a board celebrating a specific culture or country of their choosing (tip: keep a list of the places that were being celebrated in order to minimize having multiples of the same culture or country!). Our PTSA also invited some of the local high school's dance teams to come out and perform, as well as other cultural dance teams in our area. We had Folklorico, Native American, Hula, and Bollywood dancers our first year. The next year, our multicultural night expanded to include different singers—Irish and and Hispanic—as well as a Karate performance.
Each culture's booth featured pictures, stories of famous places in the area, languages, and fun facts. Many booths also included a fun easy craft for students, or stickers for students to take home. Our AVID team came up with a "Passport" for families to fill out and ask questions at each booth. We also invited a few of the local Girl Scouts to show off their "World Thinking Day" countries as well.
Outside, we had a giant world map whiteboard set up as a "selfie booth" where families could pose for photos. To make it interactive, we asked people to mark on the map where they were from—such a great experience to see families from our school represented all over the world!
Due to food allergies, we asked that no food or food samples be given out at the booths, so we invited different cultural food trucks to come out so that families wouldn't leave hungry and stay longer.
The best part was seeing the interest from families who want to showcase their own culture or country at our school's next multicultural event. To think we went from nine booths our first year (3 of them made by yours truly) to 15 booths this year! This is by far one of my favorite events, and it's only going to grow bigger and get better each year.
Free School Multicultural Night Flyer & Social Media Graphic
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