Welcome to our Destination Series!

Travel to amazing Jamaica, without leaving home! Check out our activities below!

Decorations

Make a trail mix with banana chips, coconut, and dried fruits.
(Use donut holes) and call them Jamaican Johnnycake Dumplings
Make a cake with red, yellow and green layers
Smoothies layered with watermelon, mango and kiwi will make a perfect Jamaican colored snack
Fruit Ka Bob (Marley) – strawberries, kiwi, pineapple, dark grapes (black if you can find them)
Make 3 colors of jello (red, yellow and green)
Don’t forget the Jerk Chicken!

Sensory

Use a kiddie pool and put some water in it. Let residents sit around it and put their feet in while ocean music is playing (or Reggae)

Crafts

Tie-dye shirts are always a big hit with residents.

Make traditional tissue paper flowers in Green, Black, and yellow for the ladies hair

Top Movies to Watch

Jamaican Music for Your Playlist

Books

“Bone” by Yrsa Daley-Ward – An anthology of poems
“A Brief History of Seven Killings” – Marlon James – Fiction, The book uses the backdrop of Jamaica during the ’70s and ’80s to tell the story of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.
“Augustown”, by Kei Miller – Historical fiction, Literary fiction – a novel set in a pre-independent Jamaica revolving around the country’s Revivalist movement.
“The Book of Night Women” (Hardback) by Marlon James – Historical Fiction – It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she will come to both revere and fear.
“Small Island” by Andrea Levy – (Paperback) Fiction, Historical – Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer’s daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve.