23 Feb Celebrating Black History Month as a Family – With a Little Help from The GIANT Room

Black History Month is a powerful opportunity for families to pause, learn, and celebrate the incredible contributions Black leaders, artists, scientists, and changemakers have made to our world. For kids, it’s also a chance to connect with history in a way that feels creative, hopeful, and relevant to their own lives. We may be more than half way through the month but there is still lots of learning and activities to do.

Rather than focusing on dates and facts alone, Black History Month can be a springboard for big conversations: about fairness, courage, creativity, and using your voice. When these ideas are explored through hands-on activities, stories, music, and art, children are far more likely to engage – and to remember.

That’s where The GIANT Room comes in. Known for turning learning into imaginative, child-led experiences, The GIANT Room offers family-friendly creative prompts and workshops that help bring Black history to life. Their approach centres on storytelling, making, and exploring ideas together – helping kids connect with real people from history while also dreaming up their own ideas for changing the world.

Easy Ways to Celebrate at Home

You don’t need a classroom or complicated resources to make Black History Month meaningful. Here are a few simple, age-friendly ideas inspired by The GIANT Room’s creative ethos:

Create Something Inspired by a Changemaker

Pick one inspiring figure to learn about together, then create something in response – a drawing, a model, a short story, or even a pretend invention. This helps children move from learning to imagining how they might make a difference themselves.

Music, Movement & Joy

Explore Black musical traditions by listening to jazz, soul, hip-hop, or gospel as a family. Let kids move, dance, or make their own instruments. Music is a brilliant way to experience culture emotionally, not just intellectually.

Storytime with Purpose

Choose children’s books that celebrate Black heroes or feature diverse protagonists. Reading together opens the door to natural conversations about identity, history, and kindness – and helps children see themselves and others reflected in stories.

Art as Expression

Invite kids to paint or collage around themes like “peace,” “community,” or “dreams for the future.” Art can be a gentle way to explore big ideas like equality and fairness in a way that feels safe and open-ended.

Learning That Sticks

What makes experiences like The GIANT Room’s workshops and prompts so powerful is that they encourage children to do something with what they learn. When kids build, draw, imagine, and share ideas, history becomes personal – not distant. It helps them see Black History Month not as a single moment in February, but as part of an ongoing story they’re connected to.

Celebrating Black history as a family isn’t about having all the right answers. It’s about being curious together, listening, creating, and making space for meaningful conversations. With a little creativity – and a lot of heart – Black History Month can become a beautiful, inspiring family tradition that lasts far beyond one month of the year.

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New York, NY 10004

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