Ultimate Teaching Kwanzaa Guide

Kwanzaa is a holiday that celebrates community, family, and culture—all-important values to Signature Behavioral Health. If you are looking to incorporate it into your holiday season, but don’t know how, keep reading! We have prepared crafts, books, and music ideas to share with your little ones!

Day 1: Umoja

Umoja means Unity. It is to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

For this first day, take some time to introduce Kwanzaa and it’s meaning. Receptive identification is pivotal for language development.

Day 2: Kujichagulia

Kujichagulia means self-determination. It is how we choose to define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.

Move into this day with your little one with music and books!

Day 3: Ujima

Ujima means Collective Work and Responsibility: To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and solve them together.

This is a good day to introduce your community. Pull out the markers, construction paper for this one!

Day 4: Ujamaa

Ujamaa means Cooperative Economics. It is to build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Day 5: Nia

Nia means Purpose. It is to make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

Day 6: Kuumba

Kuumba means creativity . To always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Day 7: Imani

Imani means Faith. It means to believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.