World Food Fest

We had a fun experience last week.  Our school district's homeschool assistance program held a 'World Food Fest' and we were able to participate.  We chose to learn about Russia because I thought it would be a good opportunity to share with the kids what I experienced there 11 years ago.  It also made it easy on me.  Admittedly, we didn't do a lot of research for this because it sort of snuck up on me, but I did teach the kids what I already knew and showed them my pictures, souvenirs, etc...  Then we made a display. 

 

We took some pictures with our display at home because I didn't know what it would be like the night of the event.

The kids drew and colored all of the illustrations.  They also did all of the writing on our display; however, in order to keep it legible I wrote everything in pencil first and they traced.  (Yes, I have a spelling error there, but there was no way I was making Annie re-draw her cute bus.)

One of the fun activities we did in preparation for this was look up the translations to a little book of Pushkin's fairy tales that I have.  That's the book on the bottom left. 

On the night of the event, we served Mannik which is a simple recipe that I brought home from Russia.  It's a semolina cake, so it wasn't very intimidating, though it certainly didn't taste American.  :)  The event was fun.  We were able to see the displays that the other kids created and had a full dinner from the many foods everyone brought to represent their countries.  Logan was in heaven; he had one of his best buddies to hang out with, and essentially a buffet for dinner.  For some reason he REALLY loves buffets.  He's our funny kid that will go back for fifths and sixths at a buffet.  So this totally suited him.  He went back several times, and was on his way back again when everyone started cleaning up.  :)  The kids also enjoyed seeing their teacher who visits us every month.