Trini Wild Life
This beautiful, bright red bird lives in the Caroni Swamp and is on the Coat of Arms
Scarlet Ibis
This famous street food features two fried doubles (bara) filled with channa and topped with sweet sauce or slight pepper.
Doubles
In a game of windball cricket in the yard with Daddy, this is the name of the three wooden sticks you have to defend with your bat.
The wickets
If your father tells you to stop "liming," he wants you to stop doing this.
Hanging out/ Wasting time
This is the total number of cents you would need to make up a whole Trinidad and Tobago one-dollar coin.
100 cents
If you go Grand Riviere or Matura beach at night, you might see this giant, shell-backed creature laying eggs.
Leatherback Sea Turtles
This bright red, fizzy soft drink is a classic treat, especially when paired with a hot meat pie or currant roll.
Red solo
This fictional father is a famous king from a movie, and his son Simba just "can't wait to be king."
Mufasa
When a Trini says "Allyuh," who exactly are they talking to?
All of you (a group of people)
This subject in school is where you learn about shapes, fractions, addition, and long division.
Mathematics
This small, colorful fish is found in local rivers and drains, and it's famous worldwide for helping control mosquitoes.
Guppy
This long, brown, tangy fruit comes in a shell. You can eat it fresh, but kids love it rolled in sugar and pepper.
Tamarind
If a father and son go to the savannah to "fire a breeze" on a windy Sunday afternoon, they are most likely flying this. (Especially during Easter season)
Kite
If someone is always peeping over the wall, trying to find out your business, or listening to big people conversations, you would call them a what?
Macco
This is the name of the special, traditional musical instrument invented right here in Trinidad, often played in school bands.
Steelpan
This large, green reptile has a row of spikes down its back, loves to hang out in high tree branches near rivers, and can drop its tail if a predator grabs it.
Iguana
This traditional Sunday lunch side dish is made by pounding dasheen bush leaves into a thick, delicious green soup.
Callalloo
This is the special day celebrated on the third Sunday of June every year to honor all the hard work Daddies do.
Father's Day
If a child wants a piggyback ride and jumps straight up onto their father's back, they are asking for a what?
Jockey Back
This classic schoolyard game is played in the dirt, where you use your thumb to shoot a small glass "gundy" to knock other ones out of a ring.
Pitching Marbles
This nocturnal animal loves to climb trees at night, has a long pointy face and trini like to catch and cook it.
Manicou (Opossum)
This fruit comes in a long green pod. When you crack it open, you chew the sweet fluffy white casing around a black seed. Many says that it tastes just like ice cream.
Padoo (Pois Doux/ Ice cream bean)
If a dad takes his son to see the "Soca Warriors" play at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, they are watching this sport.
Football
Fill in the blank for this famous local saying that means someone knows exactly who they can try a trick on (and who they can't!): "Monkey know what..."
tree to climb
To play this active playground game, you draw a grid of numbered squares on the concrete with chalk, throw a stone, and hop through it on one foot.
Hopscotch