Feliz Cumpleaños

An easy and fun activity to help teach the birthday song "Feliz Cumpleaños" is to type out the language (and phonetic pronunciation) on separate pieces of paper. Then, print out blank maps of each country.  Split the children in to groups for each language and let them try and figure out the pronunciation.  Then have the children come teach the primary and guess which country it comes from. I used the magnetic chalkboard to post the maps and then once they guessed, placed the words under the map (in the order of the song).

Click here to download a PDF link of the languages already typed out.

If anyone else in your primary happens to speak a different language, have them come up and share.  If you can, it might be fun to also find clothing or traditional dress from each country to have the kids put on.

Then repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat!

(If you are lucky enough to have members from any one of the countries mentioned in the song, you can have them come in and help say the word, or record it to play for the kids.)