Kids Art Russia lesson!
Today we learned about Russian architecture and ‘onion domes,’ as depicted in St. Basil’s Cathedral.
We used sharpie markers on watercolor paper to make our drawings permanent. Then we added watercolor paint and salt. The salt separates the water in a beautiful pattern. They turned out SO original! This technique is always a parent favorite, and the kids always love to paint.
Here are some examples of our final art:
Onion Domes by Katie, age 7
Onion Domes by Vivian, age 5
Onion Domes by Emilia, age 6
Onion Domes by Jeffrey, age 7
Onion Domes by Samantha, age 7
Onion Domes by Anne, age 6
We also sampled some delicious Russian Tea Cakes and I’ve included the recipe below. These are easy to make with kids!
Russian Tea Cakes (no nuts)
Butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, flour, salt
Ingredient List:
1 cup softened butter/margarine
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
optional – chopped nuts
How to Make Russian Tea Cakes:
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Mix butter powdered sugar & vanilla in a large bowl.
- Stir in flour, salt & nuts (optional). Mix & knead until dough forms.
- Shape dough into small balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 12-14 minutes or until set.
- Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar.
(I did this part since they were hot!)
- Let cool completely.
- Roll in more powdered sugar & enjoy!
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Kids art India class
We learned about the history, culture and art of India today and had a lot of fun!
Our main project today was recreating the ‘painted elephant festival’ of Jaipur, India. Here are some cool examples of painted elephants from the festival:
We created 3-dimensional paper sculptures with collage elements and decorated them with colored pencil ‘paint.’
Here are some of our final creations:
Elephant by Katie, age 7
Katie with her elephant
Elephant 1
Elephant 2
Elephant 3
Elephant by Sean, age 5
We also enjoyed a traditional Indian snack recipe, with mixed reviews! (It used a lot of spices the children were not familiar with, plus it was vegetables). I did not include the tofu or the peanuts in our recipe.
Corn Chaat
Corn, tofu, onion, tomato, carrot, coriander, lemon juice, salt, pepper
Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
10 mins
Total time
15 mins
A quick salad snack made with corn, indian cottage cheese and raw veggies
Author: Swasthi
Recipe type: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Yield: 2
Ingredients (240 ml cup used)
· 1 cup of corn kernels (boiled)
· 10 paneer or tofu cubes
· ½ small onion finely chopped
· ½ small tomato finely chopped
· ½ carrot grated
· 1 green chili (optional, skip for kids)
· Few coriander leaves / cilantro chopped
· Chat masala powder as needed
· Amchur if needed (your chat masala will already have amchur, so add only if needed) or lemon juice
· Salt as needed
· Pepper powder if needed
Instructions
1. Wash corn under running water. If using corn on the cob, soak them in salted water for sometime. Any pesticide residue will just get rinsed well. Boil the corn cobs or corn kernels in a large bowl filled with water. If using cobs, remove the kernels after boiling. Drain water completely. If you are using tender corn, you can alternately steam the corn to retain nutrients.
2. Cut paneer to small chunks. Tawa fry paneer in just one tsp ghee.
3. Add all the ingredients and toss well and serve corn chaat immediately while hot. If desired you can top it with crunchy roasted peanuts.
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