This week we are visiting Russia!
Here is our ‘This week we are visiting Russia’ sign. We stick ours up in the kitchen/dining room (where we do most of our playing!) so that the boys can keep looking at it...
Here is our ‘This week we are visiting Russia’ sign. We stick ours up in the kitchen/dining room (where we do most of our playing!) so that the boys can keep looking at it...
We made some flags as part of our ‘Russia week’. We made one flag out of card, craft sticks, glue and paint. I made one first, and then drew out the stripes for my...
After we read the Nutcracker book for our ‘Russia week’ – see my post on books for Russia week – I decided that we could make a little Nutcracker that we could make dance...
When I think of Russia, I think of Siberia – and principally how cold it is! So, for a science experiment for ‘Russia week’, there didn’t seem to be anything more appropriate than this...
One of the most iconic buildings in Russia is St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. I think the coloured onion-domes are so beautiful. I was trying to think of what I could do with my...
Matryoshka dolls are famous in Russia, and such a lovely concept too. I knew we had to make some for our ‘Russia week’, but I wanted to make them entirely from scratch, using very...
Our favourite book for ‘Russia week’ is Let’s visit St. Petersburg from the Bella and Harry series – see my post Bella and Harry adventure series on why we love these books! My eldest...
For our ‘Russia week’, we made two Matryoshka dolls out of fuse beads. Older children could copy this design for themselves, but our preschooler needed some help. It complements ‘The Littlest Matryoshka’ book we...
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