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.
