20+ Crafts to Celebrate Arab Summer Athletes {Resource}

The 2016 Summer Games have started in Brazil this week and these crafts celebrate those from the Arab world.  We are excited at our house to cheer on the 486 athletes who will represent our culture in 362 events.

Over the years, we have created over a dozen projects to celebrate these Middle East and North African (also called MENA) countries and we thought we’d share them with you.

Please feel free to visit some of these activities over the next two weeks to cheer on your favorite MENA country.

(Notes – 1- Kuwait has been suspended, however athletes from that country will be participating. 2 – We have created two Syria crafts for both flags and included here a project to help refugees.)

Start by dowloading some free printables to get to know the MENA countries that are members of the Arab League:

Arab League Countries Word Search {Free Printable}

Arab League Capitals Word Search {Printable}

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Algeria

Sports 13 * Athletes 68 * Events 53

Bahrain

Sports 4 * Athletes 35 * Events 21

Comoros

Sports 2 * Athletes 4 * Events 4

Djibouti

Sports 3 * Athletes 7 * Events 7

Egypt

Sports 24 * Athletes 122 * Events 88

Iraq

Sports 5 * Athletes 26 * Events 5

Jordan

Sports 6 * Athletes 8 * Events 8

Kuwait

Sports 0 * Athletes 0 * Events 0

Lebanon

Sports 7 * Athletes 9 * Events 9

Libya

Sports 6 * Athletes 7 * Events 7

Mauritania

Sports 1 * Athletes 2 * Events 2

Morocco

Sports 13 * Athletes 49 * Events 40

Oman

Sports 2 * Athletes 4 * Events 4

Palestine

Sports 4 * Athletes 6 * Events 6

Qatar

Sports 10 * Athletes 39 * Events 21

Saudi Arabia

Sports 5 * Athletes 12 * Events 12

Somalia

Sports 1 * Athletes 2 * Events 2

Sudan

Sports 3 * Athletes 6 * Events 6

Syria

Sports 5 * Athletes 7 * Events 7

Tunisia

Sports 18 * Athletes 61 * Events 48

United Arab Emirates

Sports 6 * Athletes 13 * Events 12

Yemen

Sports 3 * Athletes 4 * Events 4

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Stop by the Arab League Pinterest board for more fun projects from MENA.

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acraftyarab

I am a Libyan American who creates art to promote a positive image of Arab and Islamic culture.