I love this card for Día del Padre! Several of my private students are going to be giving this tarjeta to Dad this Father’s Day. The printable card has a pirinola that you can cut out to play Toma todo with Dad. A pirinola is a top with instructions on each side. Toma todo is a traditional game that my kids played all the time in Mexico. In some countries the top is called a [...]
OnlineFreeSpanish has added a set of activities for Día del Padre. Follow the link below to reach these interactive games. The vocabulary in these games tends to be associated with Dads, but it is also just practical, common Spanish that will serve any language learner well. The set of lessons includes five different interactive games and printable cards in Spanish for Father’s Day. The first game is titled simply Father’s Day and has lots of [...]
One of the most well-known songs for Father’s day in Spanish is Hoy tengo que decirte Papá. It has been recorded by many children’s artists and is dedicated to lots of fathers each Día del Padre. The most famous group to record the song was the Mexican group Timbiriche. Both Thalia and Paulina Rubio, now internationally famous recording artists, sang with Timbiriche. The group has at least two versions of the song, one when they [...]
Making Spanish Father’s Day cards to celebrate Día del Padre can be a good language activity when kids add their own message or use cards with text that they read. The language used on cards also has a cultural element because it shows how heart-felt emotion is expressed in Spanish. Dibujalia and Pintar y jugar have printable cards, diplomas and door hangers with significant amounts of Spanish. These are a few of the printable materials [...]
Father’s Day is coming up in a couple of weeks. It is on June 17th this year, and for those of you who want to get a head start here are a few resources. In Spanish, Father’s Day is Día del padre or Día de los padres. Making Spanish Father’s Day cards is a great language activity for kids. One of the easiest ways to make cards is using the printables on the website Correomágico. [...]