Ten easy ways to teach your child about their heritage.

  1. Celebrate all the traditional holidays, explain their meaning and teach by demonstrating the way our people celebrate the festivities.

  1. Attend Folk gatherings and cultural events such as Scottish Festivals, Summer Cultural Camps, Heathen celebrations, and Folk Festivals.

  1. Study your culture and or religion through children’s books or youth study groups and activity booklets.

  1. Take a short trip and talk about your people and all the accomplishments they have made throughout history when visiting local and distant history areas.

  1. Visit family and friends and have them retell true or fictional stories regarding our people. Let them learn through their imagination.

  1. Put them in traditional dance classes, or sports that are culture orientated such as Highland Dance.

  1. Cook traditional foods with your children. Teach them how our ancestors created meals, and how delicious their food really was.

  1. Sing traditional songs and verses, change them into finger plays and fun little games.

  1. Teach a new language, the younger the child the faster they will learn a new tongue.

  1. Act out traditional Norse Sagas, Heathen based stories, or simply parts of our history.