Activities
Resources to empower teachers, learners, parents and children to create dynamic, engaging, and personalized language learning experiences.
Proverbidioms
This activity helps participants understand idioms by turning them into creative drawings. While having fun, they learn the meaning behind unusual expressions, explore how language works, and practice using their imagination.
Mots cachés dans les dessins
Dans cet atelier créatif et ludique, les participants apprennent à former des dessins d’animaux en utilisant les lettres arabes qui composent leur nom. À partir d’un mot simple (ex. : جمل – chameau), ils imaginent comment chaque lettre peut devenir un élément du corps de l’animal (bosse, pattes, tête…). L’activité favorise l’apprentissage du vocabulaire, la reconnaissance des lettres et développe l’expression artistique. Accessible aux enfants, adolescents et adultes débutants ou intermédiaires en arabe, cet atelier peut se réaliser sur papier ou sur écran, en présentiel ou en ligne.
The Intruder and the Four Seasons
The Intruder and the four seasons is an interactive educational activity designed to enhance language skills through the exploration of the four seasons. Utilizing the “L’Intrus” card game format, this activity incorporates visual arts and seasonal themes to foster vocabulary development, sentence construction, and creative expression.
Mapping Poland’s Legends
This educational and fun game helps children to consolidate their knowledge of Poland’s geography and
the country’s cultural heritage of legends.
La balade des connaissances (à Damas)
Cette activité propose une promenade interactive dans la vieille ville de Damas, guidée par 8 lettres à découvrir. À chaque étape, des jeux permettent aux enfants d’améliorer leur écriture arabe tout en explorant l’histoire et le patrimoine de la ville. Le parcours aborde aussi des thèmes importants comme la paix et la diversité. Une expérience ludique et éducative, pensée pour les enfants en situation d’exil.
Animating Letters – Learn to Write with Stop Motion!
A playful way to explore the alphabet, build words, and practice writing through animation. Create fun, patterned letters, then bring them to life using stop motion!
Création de compositions de lettres
Explorer la beauté des formes des lettres arabes en composant des groupes de deux ou trois lettres pour créer des motifs graphiques originaux, en sortant du cadre traditionnel de la calligraphie.
Créer une horloge pour apprendre les chiffres en arabe
Explorer la beauté des formes des lettres arabes en composant des groupes de deux ou trois lettres pour créer des motifs graphiques originaux, en sortant du cadre traditionnel de la calligraphie.
الثُّلُث – Thuluth: Geometric Scrabble with Arabic Word Roots
Thuluth is a mosaic-inspired board game that builds Arabic vocabulary and highlights the language’s structural beauty. Named after the three-letter root system and a classical calligraphic style, the game blends art, logic, and language. Players form roots on a triangular board, earning points and developing their skills through play. Suitable for all levels, from beginners to native speakers.
Kufic Script Inspired Mosaic
Through this workshop, participants simultaneously engage their language skills (recognition, writing, pronunciation) and their artistic sense, while immersing themselves in the geometric and historical heritage of Kufic script.
Art and Fashion – The Wawel Heads
Museum visits are an excellent way to combine heritage language teaching and art. But what if no interesting museums are nearby? Here, virtual museums are a good alternative. In this workshop we aim to show how freely available online resources published by museums can be used for a wide variety of art-based learning activities.
Reading Yoga
Reading Yoga is an engaging, movement-based storytelling activity that uses a children’s book to support language development. It is designed to bring together multilingual families in a playful and culturally resonant setting.
Sensorial Writing
This activity encourages preschool children to use familiar language, learn new words, and engage in playful, creative writing exercises using sensory materials, with or without the involvement of their parents. It transforms vocabulary learning into a hands-on, memorable experience that sparks imagination and curiosity.
Word Search with Transparent Sheet
This playful reading activity helps children explore a story by finding, highlighting, and creatively rewriting key words. Through colors and shapes, they build simple or advanced sentences, making language learning fun and interactive.
Fold, Snip, Paste! – The Art of Polish Paper Cuts
Paper cuts are a long-standing tradition of Polish peasant culture. The best-known, from Kurpie and Łowicz, were cut with sheep shears. They range from simple to intricate designs, from single-colour cuts to collages and illustrated stories and have been used to decorate walls and windows. This makes them a perfect means to combine a creative activity with heritage language learning.
True and False Friends – a Memory Game
With this game, learners not only improve their vocabulary, avoiding lexical pitfalls while also benefitting from existing knowledge of the majority language. They also playfully gain a better understanding of the historical and cultural ties that link their heritage language to the majority language.
Exploring Word Fields Through Calligrams
In this method, calligrams (or picture poems) serve as an inspiration for exploring word fields centred on common terms, such as the name of animals. Learners are asked to fill a silhouette with words and phrases related to the image, thereby enriching their vocabulary in the heritage language.
The Intruder – Card Game
The Intruder is a versatile and interactive multilingual card game designed to enhance language learning across multiple levels (A1-C2) while fostering creativity, imagination, and cultural awareness. Perfect for classrooms or family gatherings, this game offers both online and printed versions, allowing players to explore language in a fun, dynamic way.
Stop Dance with Pictures
This method integrates movement, music, and language learning through a dynamic game where children dance, freeze on picture cards, and respond to prompts. By identifying features, naming objects, and rhyming, they develop cognitive skills, creativity, and multicultural awareness while staying physically active.
Word search game in a story passage
A fun and educational game that helps children improve reading comprehension and word recognition! Players read a short passage and search for specific words, underlining them with a colored pen. Younger children can form sentences orally, while advanced learners can write sentences using the words they find. Perfect for enhancing vocabulary and literacy skills!
Travel Game
A memory and creativity-boosting game where players take turns adding items to a travel list. The first player starts by saying, “I am going on a trip and I will take…” and names an item. Each player must remember the previous items before adding their own. The game continues until a player forgets an item, making it a fun way to practice memory and sequencing!
Message pendants
The workshop provides a personal experience and links the practise of writing skills to aesthetical pleasure. It is recommanded for children or adults with low literacy competences to build a positive relationship to writing.
In the Footsteps of Hungarian Photographers
The workshop blends language learning with cultural exploration, encouraging participants to use Hungarian creatively while connecting with the artistic legacy of Hungarian photographers. It also develops skills like digital tool usage, non-verbal communication, and intercultural understanding. Adaptable to various languages, age groups, and learning contexts, the activities can be modified for online or offline settings.
Activities Module – Storytelling for little ones
This module presents a series of activities for a long workshop to encourage preschool children to use language they know, to learn new words and to engage in various fun and creative activities with/without parents.
Sand Storytelling
Let children be creative with kinetic sand as they explore textures, create shapes and bring their own imaginative stories to life with sand and cardboard characters in this interactive storytelling activity