Hispanic Heritage Month Activities for Kids

October 2, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, and it’s a great time to learn about Hispanic artists, scientists and others who have influenced the world.

My daughter’s Spanish class is doing all sorts of fun projects (she’s highlighting murals in our area painted by Hispanic artists) and project based learning is a great way to learn about different Hispanic figures.

For example this collaborative poster project from Easy Fun Science at Teachers Pay Teachers has kids learn about different Hispanic scientists and share information that’s put together into a display.

Srta Spanish has a virtual field trip built into an interactive Google Map showing different figures from around the world. The videos and readings are in English, though it would also be great for a Spanish class. Kids can just use the information in this project (there are comprehension questions included) or pick a figure from the presentation to learn more about.

For kids who do speak Spanish, the resources from The Llearning Llama are a lot of fun for the classroom. There’s a would you rather game, a quiz to determine which famous Hispanic person you are, foldable books about 24 Hispanic figures and more. You can learn about the resources on the blog and find tons of paid resources at Teachers Pay Teachers.

Real Life in the Classroom has a nice breakdown of how to research people and has some free printables (and more at Teachers Pay Teachers) to make it easy to make a display of their reports. Of course you can also have kids draw and write their own reports if you want to cover people who aren’t included in her list.

Woo Jr. has some good basic information you can build a lesson on, such as definitions of Hispanic and Latino, a country list and word search of country names, and a few biographies of Hispanic people in different fields. There’s also a notebooking page for learning about different countries if you want to include that in your lessons, as well as other ideas.

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Book Review: Borders

My brother went through a phase where he was obsessed with maps. He loved to look at maps and he would draw maps of places real and imagined. He even drew maps that followed our route when we’d go to visit our grandparents in another state!

I assume there are still kids who go through map phases, and kids with an interest in history and how things got to be the way they are. Both kinds of kids will enjoy the book Borders: Understanding the Lines that Unite and Separate Us by Karim Ressouni-Demigneux, with illustrations by Karine Maincent.

The book describes how the original borders were natural, such as oceans, rivers, mountains and deserts, and while some of those borders are still in use today, many borders are human made, decided by treaties or carved out by colonizers. It covers the history of people congregating in one place and how city-states evolved into empires, how maps are drawn and how human conflicts can reshape borders.

There are stories about walls that reinforce borders, how borders work in the air and at sea, how people cross borders with passports or as refugees and how climate change is altering the borders of some countries.

You’ll also learn some fun border facts like the fact that if you stand in the middle of the bridge over the Zambezi River you can be in four countries at once because that’s where the borders of Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe meet. Or how there is only one border crossing between India and Pakistan that’s closed each night in an elaborate ceremony.

The book talks about time zones, border towns and places where countries and parts of countries are inside other countries and places where borders are less important such as the European Union.

While there are serious subjects in the book, it’s still a fun read that’s sure to interest those kids around ages 8-12 who like travel, maps and weird but true facts.

About the book: 72 pages, hardcover, published 2026 by Blue Dot Kids Press. Suggested retail price $21.95.

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