Meet Anja Jensen, a 9-year-old inventor who’s always looking for a problem to solve. In four original audio stories, your family will ride a roller coaster at Legoland, help bake thousands of cinnamon rolls, travel around Copenhagen to learn the secrets of Danish happiness and save Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales in Odense. Each story is about 30 minutes and made for kids ages 5–11. This Denmark country set also includes 9 printables, two recipes and a full country guide.
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Young Danish inventor Anja Jensen is stuck. She’s trying to come up with an invention that could actually help people. At nine years old, she’s designed wind-powered clocks, bicycle-powered lamps and a licorice-giving cuckoo clock. But as she keeps coming up empty, she grows frustrated. For creative inspiration, his parents and grandfather take her to Legoland. While there, Anja shares a roller coaster ride with an important stranger who appreciates her innovative ideas.
It’s Cinnamon Roll Wednesday in Denmark. But today, instead of just eating rolls, Anja learns that her mother is old friends with the most important cinnamon rolls baker in Denmark. Her mother volunteered the family to help the baker so she can take a much needed vacation. To help, Anja comes up with an invention that just might do the trick — and more! But will the machine replace good old fashioned hard work?
Denmark has once again been chosen as one of the happiest countries in the world, But that’s were the work begins — trying to figure our what makes Scandinavians so happy for her class assignment. Her parents are there to help as the family travels around Copenhagen to teach Anja the secrets of happiness.
While on a class trip to the fairytale Danish town of Odense, Anja has to do more that just learn about Hans Christian Andersen. With some help from a few unbelievable friends, she has to figure out how to save HC Andersen’s stories from being erased from the memory of everyone in the world.
Denmark is almost surrounded by water, with more than 400 islands and a spot in Skagen where two seas crash into each other. This part of the country guide explores Scandinavia and Danish geography with maps, why Danes are among the happiest people in the world, the cozy Danish idea of hygge, a few Danish words and the Danish royal family.
Did you know? In Danish, your father’s mother is your farmor, and your mother’s mother is your mormor.
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Discover how Lego became one of Denmark’s great success stories, read Hans Christian Andersen’s original Little Mermaid, line up for Cinnamon Roll Wednesday and celebrate Friday Candy with a candy-tasting scoresheet. There’s Lego bingo and a fairy tale rewriting activity, too.
Did you know? On Wednesdays, Danish bakeries sell extra-large cinnamon rolls called onsdagssnegle, or “Wednesday snails.”
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Two Danish favorites to make together: Kanelsnegle (cinnamon snails), perfect for a hygge afternoon, and Danish rye bread for open-faced smørrebrød sandwiches. Each one comes as a printable recipe card.
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Print, color and play: Danish bakery and Andersen fairy tale coloring pages, a Denmark map coloring page, Western Europe map challenges, Lego bingo, a what-makes-you-happy drawing page, fairy tale rewrites, a Friday candy tasting scoresheet and a My Danish Week challenge.
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“To my pleasant surprise, there was significantly less fighting, complaining, arguing, etc. when my kids were cleaning up while listening to the stories. I may have cracked the code!”
– Elizabeth Dukart, That Homeschool Family
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