Festivals of Light - how many are there and how are they celebrated?

[KatyMac]

I am looking into how we are going to do 'Christmas' with my childminded children

I know a (very) little about Diwali & Hanukkah, I am starting to learn about Yule, Samhain & Kwanzaa

Are there more (I'm sure there must be) - are there any nice resources I can download

As a Christian, I am concerned that I am not as 'diverse' as I should be - but baring i mind that the few of my children that have an active religion are Christian, I am not sure how to address this

Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions

hi KM
I used these for FE people who have autism, but there's another one in my bookmarks somewhere - off to find

bits of this for info

Thanks - they are a good start

I think I need something a bit more basic tho'

I found this about Kwanzaa - which I think is lovely

"Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:
? To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
? To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
? To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
? To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
? To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
? To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
? To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle."

a bump for the evening crew
and i'm off to nose around a bit more. are your lot very little then KM?

Under 5, mainly under 3