Sorsha
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29 days till the start of the Winter Olympics!
Although I much prefer the summer games - just more to watch that I personally enjoy - I am very excited for the Vancouver games to begin. We have been thinking about how to celebrate the opening of the games this year.
For the Beijing summer games in 2008, we did a huge celebration with the kids for the opening night of the games. They made paper lanterns, and I printed out coloring sheets and games to play for the little ones to learn a bit about China and the history of the games. They weren't in school, so they enjoyed having things to do in the summer when they were a wee bit bored anyway. For the opening ceremonies we cooked homemade Chinese food, made tea, and put electric lights inside the paper lanterns; and everyone had to try to eat with chopsticks.
I would like to do something fun for the opening of the winter games, but since everyone is in school, I think they would (understandably) be less excited about mom making them do worksheets and coloring pages at home after a day at school.
So I think we will skip that part.
So that leaves me with planning a fun Olympic dinner for the evening of the opening ceremonies. I live very close to the Pacific Northwest, and a lot of the foods that would be "traditional" to that area are ones we commonly eat as well. That wouldn't be too much fun. Then I though maybe of doing a multicultural meal. I would need to find a list of the participating countries, then choose a few and uses food from those countries for our meal.
It would take some planning, but we could do small servings of several things, and eat them when each country is announced on the Parade of Nations. I can see several logistical difficulties with this, foremost being that I might end up having all of my foods come from A and B countries. The Parade of Nations takes a LONG time, and though I might want to have foods from Russia and Uganda, I can't expect the 6 year old to wait that long for her supper.
I don't know, I am just throwing out ideas here. Does anyone have any ideas they would share? Anyone already have plans for this event?
Although I much prefer the summer games - just more to watch that I personally enjoy - I am very excited for the Vancouver games to begin. We have been thinking about how to celebrate the opening of the games this year.
For the Beijing summer games in 2008, we did a huge celebration with the kids for the opening night of the games. They made paper lanterns, and I printed out coloring sheets and games to play for the little ones to learn a bit about China and the history of the games. They weren't in school, so they enjoyed having things to do in the summer when they were a wee bit bored anyway. For the opening ceremonies we cooked homemade Chinese food, made tea, and put electric lights inside the paper lanterns; and everyone had to try to eat with chopsticks.
I would like to do something fun for the opening of the winter games, but since everyone is in school, I think they would (understandably) be less excited about mom making them do worksheets and coloring pages at home after a day at school.
So I think we will skip that part.So that leaves me with planning a fun Olympic dinner for the evening of the opening ceremonies. I live very close to the Pacific Northwest, and a lot of the foods that would be "traditional" to that area are ones we commonly eat as well. That wouldn't be too much fun. Then I though maybe of doing a multicultural meal. I would need to find a list of the participating countries, then choose a few and uses food from those countries for our meal.
It would take some planning, but we could do small servings of several things, and eat them when each country is announced on the Parade of Nations. I can see several logistical difficulties with this, foremost being that I might end up having all of my foods come from A and B countries. The Parade of Nations takes a LONG time, and though I might want to have foods from Russia and Uganda, I can't expect the 6 year old to wait that long for her supper.
I don't know, I am just throwing out ideas here. Does anyone have any ideas they would share? Anyone already have plans for this event?
Maybe that is big out West I don't know I am in middle. 
