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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Scribble Kids traveled to France and learned about art, history and culture!
Here are some of my students (with signed photo releases) working hard on their projects 
Hard at work!
Coloring a ‘Rose Window’
We learned about the Eiffel tower and Post-Impressionism today and studied a painting by Georges Seurat of the Eiffel Tower, which you can see below.
Eiffel Tower, by Georges Seurat
We began our own Eiffel towers with a guided drawing in oil pastels.
Eiffel Tower Beginning Sketch
Then we added color mixing ‘dots’ just like Georges Seurat’s paint strokes. This created optical color mixing! Here are some of my student’s final art.. things got busy so I wasn’t able to photograph everything, unfortunately:
Eiffel Tower by Jeffrey, age 7
Eiffel Tower by Emelia, age 6
Eiffel Tower by Katie, age 7
Eiffel Tower by Samantha
Eiffel Tower by Gabby, age 6
Eiffel Tower by Avery, age 6
Eiffel Tower by Vivian, age 5
Eiffel Tower by Anne, age 6
We also worked on French poodles! Class was so busy I only got one photograph. Only half done here, but VERY cool!!
Poodle in progress
So cute and fluffy!
Here is the recipe the children sampled of French yogurt cake. It’s very easy to make.
French Yogurt Cake (Gateau au Yaourt)
Flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, lemon, Greek yogurt, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla, butter
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
3/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Coat a standard (8 1/2 x 4 1/4″) loaf pan with nonstick vegetable oil spray. Dust with flour; tap out excess.
Whisk 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 tsp. baking powder and the kosher salt in a medium bowl.
Using your fingers, rub 1 cup sugar with the lemon zest in a large bowl until sugar is moist. Add the yogurt, vegetable oil, eggs and vanilla; whisk to blend. Fold in dry ingredients just to blend.
Pour batter into prepared pan; smooth top. Bake until top of cake is golden brown and a tester inserted into center comes out clean, 50 to 55 minutes. Let cake cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Invert onto rack; let cool completely.
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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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Amazing ohio kids art – folk art chickens!
Oh how I’ve looked forward to this class.. I am very easily amused and I think chickens are one of the weirdest, coolest animals. Did you know chickens are related to dinosaurs?! True story. For proof, click here.
I think they look alike, don’t you?
In class today we learned about folk art and viewed some farm related examples of North American folk art, including sculpture and quilts. We sketched chickens in 3 different ways:
Anime chicken by Thatcher. WOW.
Then we chose our favorite chicken sketch and drew the design on large construction paper. We used oil pastels and baby oil to blend bright colors together.
Finally, we collage-d paper squares around our chickens to create a final folk art ‘quilt.’ Here are our final images!
Chicken Quilt by Maura, age 6
Chicken Quilt by Rowin, age 6
Chicken Quilt by Ingrid, age 6
Chicken Quilt by Dexter, age 10
Chicken Quilt by Thatcher, age 7
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