Art Around the World: August Edition

Day 1:  Argentina

When campers arrived, they painted and beaded wooden name tags that my husband made on our Glowforge, then they colored in a giant welcome banner.  We learned information about Argentina, made clay llama sculptures, and wove tiny blankets for them with a straw loom and yarn.  Later in the week we painted the llamas.  For food, we made homemade alfajores cookies by rolling out the dough and filling them with dulce la leche.  Yum!  
Recipe:  https://www.chowhound.com/recipes/alfajores-28373

Day 2: Russia

We talked about the vast country of Russia and then read a story called The Littlest Mastryoshka.  The campers painted wooden matryoshka nesting dolls and then we made blini, a thin pancake, which we filled with strawberries and whip cream!  
Recipe:  https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/215962/blini-russian-pancakes/

Day 3:  Italy

After watching a video about Italy, one of the students dressed up like Leonardo da Vinci and "painted" the Mona Lisa.  We spread wet plaster on burlap to make our own frescoes.  When they dried, we drew fruit still lifes with chalk pastels.  We also made margherita pizza with sauce, mozzarella, parmesan, and basil.  Yummy!  
Recipe:  https://www.thekitchn.com/easy-recipe-classic-margherita-pizza-recipes-from-the-kitchn-174103  (we used refrigerator bistro pizza dough and jarred pizza sauce instead of homemade)

Day 4:  Egypt

After watching a video about a tourist in Egypt, we made funny Pharaoh selfies with our names written in hieroglyphs.  We cooked up some Egyptian Basbousa Semolina cake that was very interesting, like sweet, dense cornbread with syrup on top.  
Recipe: 
​https:/cleobuttera.com/middle-eastern/best-ever-pastry-shop-style-basbousa/

Day 5:  Thailand

We enjoyed a video about a family who traveled to Thailand and then read a book called The Umbrella Queen and painted with liquid watercolors on paper lanterns.  We cooked up some veggie stir fry and rice noodles.  We topped it off with watermelon slushies.  The kids enjoyed shopping at the studio store, too!  
Recipe:  https://damndelicious.net/2014/05/24/watermelon-slush/  (I skipped the sugar)

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