The IKEA International Children's Village offers creative hands-on opportunities for children to learn about the arts, toys, and daily life of other cultures. This year's activities are particularly exciting as the vibrant cultural traditions of Trinidad and Korea are featured. Experience a Korean adventure by making and playing Jaegi, a Korean equivalent to the American game hacky-sack.
Children can make up to five different types of masks that are used in Korean traveling theaters.
Colorful dragon puppets, which symbolize good fortune and protection, will be made from ordinary lunch bags, and everyone can play music after making their own sogo, a type of hand-held drum. Throughout the grounds, sidewalk artists engage their audiences in fun and flights of fancy. Balloon artists turn simple balloons into animal menageries, face painters add color and sparkles to smiling faces, caricaturists whimsically portray visitors on paper and hair wrappers entwine shiny locks with strands of colorful fabric. 5 Minute Photo Cartoons Kid's Cartoons in 5 Minutes Dragonfly Hairweaving Hair Wrap Artistry Earth Wiz Theatrics Brilliant Rainbows - Fun Painting Emerald City Balloon Co. A delightful variety of music, storytelling, puppetry and international folkdance are featured in these shows aimed at kids and, in many cases, performed by kids.