FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Multicultural Resources for Kids, Teachers and Parents
Ignite you and your kids’ curiosity about other cultures with some FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022 and other soccer resources.
1. FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Bracket
Download and print this free World Cup Qatar 2022 Bracket HERE and have every member of your family or several friends fill it out and see what happens!
2. FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Panini Sticker Album
Do you own the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Panini Sticker Album to keep up with the teams, FIFA World Cup stats, and your favorite teams and players? The actual album is not super expensive. It’s collecting the individual sticker cards that becomes a little pricey.
If other families in your circle purchase the album and collect the cards, you could trade with each other, which makes the experience more enjoyable. Albums and sticker packets or boxes are sold online on Amazon and at Walmart in-store. One packet contains five cards.
Something I really enjoy about this sticker album is that it comes translated into nine different languages. Can you guess which ones they are?
3. STEAM Inspired Books About Soccer for Kids
I found these at the local library. Check them out and have them handy to learn more about this sport.
Soccer School: Where SOCCER EXPLAINS SAVES the WORLD by Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton. Every class is about soccer because there is something interesting to learn about soccer in every class!
It’s a Number’s Game! Soccer: The math behind the perfect goal, the game-winning save and so much more! by James Buckley, Jr. Great book to learn how math works in real life!
4. Inspiring Multicultural Picture Books About Soccer
Pelé King of Soccer / Pelé, el rey del fútbol by Monica Brown and Illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez. Learn about one of the world’s all-time best soccer players ever! This beautiful bilingual picture book will take you to Brazil’s soccer fields where children used grapefruit or a newspaper stuffed sock for a soccer ball.
The Field by Baptiste Paul. Experience soccer through the eyes of Hatian children. This beautiful picture book with Haitian Creole and English words is written in prose, and has lots of action words kids can relate to!
Goal! By Mina Javaherbin and illustrated by A.G. Ford. is another beautiful and endearing picture book about boys playing soccer in South Africa. In the author’s note you will read the following: “They play to stay connected, they play to stay children. They play to stay human. But mostly, they play to play.” And this is why soccer is for everyone, no matter where they were born or where they live.
5. Other Ways to Use the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 to Ignite Your Kids’ Curiosity About Other Cultures
Even if you don’t get the album, there are so many other ways to learn about the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022:
Identify the countries that qualified to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on a world map or globe.
Identify participating countries’ capital cities.
Identify the main languages spoken in the different countries represented.
Learn to say “Hello” and/or “Thank you” in the different languages represented or just in Arabic, the language of the host country, Qatar.
Learn to pronounce the name of the countries in the way that its citizens pronounce it.
Find out an interesting fact about the countries represented.
Draw and color the flags of one, a few or all the countries represented in this World Cup.
Visit an ethnic restaurant in your area from one of the countries represented or find an easy recipe to cook from your favorite country represented or the host country, Qatar.
Learn to write your name in one of the languages of the countries represented.
Have a GOAL contest! It’s simple. Get a group together and see who can shout GOAL the longest!
6. Watch a Soccer Documentary: This is Football
Have you ever wondered why soccer is such a popular sport played all over the world? Why does it stir so much passion and loyalty?
In Honduras, almost every village or neighborhood has at least three things: a pulperpía (small convenience store), a church, and a soccer field. The soccer field is sometimes the only playground for children in developing nations. Sometimes it is the only healthy exercise or play they can experience in the midst of great difficulty and challenges. It's a space for friendship and community. And if for some reason, there isn’t a soccer field for kids to play in, the street will do. All you need is level ground, a ball, friends, and rocks to mark the goal.
This is Football is a documentary about soccer’s impact around the world. Travel to the streets of Delhi, the field of post-war Rwanda, all the way to Argentina. Learn how soccer has united people from around the world. It is a very interesting documentary!
7. FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Official Video
Watch the official World Cup Music Video: Hayya Hayya, Better Together
I hope you enjoy this list of resources! But I want to end this post with a friendly and encouraging reminder: It is good and beautiful to learn about other cultures; but it is not the most important thing.
Knowing and following Jesus is the most important thing of all. When our children experience Jesus’ love at home and in our classrooms by being seen, heard, safe and secure, the rest will follow (little by little).
Love the children entrusted to your care well so that they can have the ability to share the love they have received to a world that desperately needs it whether it is in the soccer field, the playgrounds, or the classroom.
