Nana camp

My girls in Seattle like so many have been home from school since March.  Their teachers have been sending them assignments for home study and we decided to start some fun learning via FaceTime.  For 12 weeks we have been learning and doing.....lots of fun.  We started with paper beads: made crackers in the kitchen; moved on to felt art, citrus and Key lime pie.  This week we switched from sweet creations to salads and nutrition....it's all fun.  I am enjoying my virtual time with these precious girls..

We started March 23 with paper beads:

black and gold paper beads

the above beads came from this magazine page

the girls chose these pages

cutting isosceles triangles from paper

paper beads drying

words of the week: "isosceles" and "corrugated"

The next week we made a collage of more of our magazine paper and created an iconic Seattle architectural structure:

Many well known artists used "collage" as an art medium

Reina chose 

Seattle Public market

No trouble identifying this famous sign.

Amazon campus 3 spheres

I have yet to see this one but there are 3 spheres on the Amazon campus in Seattle.  Gabriela chose this soon to be iconic structure

And I chose this:

Eiffel tower collage

See the black cat on the left front leg?

word for the week - "iconography"

Now we've done a couple of weeks of Mod Podge.  Can you get enough Mod Podge?

My Seattle girls and I all love to be in the kitchen so week 3 was doing a little baking.  We explored 3 recipes---all crackers.  Well it's nearly impossible to find yeast in the markets these crazy days and we're "not allowed" to go to the markets except for essentials  so we had a "use what you have" theme this week:  The girls did great  We made cheese sticks from Puff pastry and cheese:

cheese straws, mis en place

cheese straws

Crispy flat seeded crackers

seeded flat crackers

seeded flat crackers in a glass

and Savory cheese biscotti

savory cheese biscotti

We learned quite a bit about substituting ingredients that we did not have for those that we did.  We used different flours, different (or no) leavening and a variety of nuts and seeds.

theme of the week: crackers

word of the week: "leavening"  and as many French words as we could use in our virtual Boulangerie

Yep  They're good