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Did you see our All Around The World: About India and the Philippines? This is our next All Around The World activity. This focuses on Russian Nesting Dolls. This is set up a tad bit different than our other Around The World activities, but still just as much fun. Learning about this fascinating country is sure to be one that your kids will enjoy learning about! I love teaching my children about different countries and cultures and my kids love it too!
All Around The World: Russian Nesting Dolls
For young children, we might not want to dive in too deep, but teaching fun, simple facts is a great place to start!
This All Around The World: Russian Nesting Dolls is a game in a sort of way. The purpose is to reunite the 5 daughter dolls with their mother doll. If you aren’t familiar with them, Russian Nesting Dolls, also known as Matryoshka Dolls get smaller in progression and fit inside the larger ones.
This activity is an opportunity for children to reunite the Mom doll with the 5 daughter dolls, in doing this children will design the dolls. Children can name their dolls, choose their favorite color & hobbies.
Then, the following pages after that will help kids create a book, all about their Matryoshka Dolls.
Check out our All Around the World: About India!
These activities are such a simple but engaging way to help children learn a little about an important part of the Russian culture. This also helps encourage creativity and individualism.
Prepping This Activity
Just like with the other All About The World activities, this activity is super simple to prep. It will take you no time at all. Simply print and your kids can start playing! They can use crayons or any other coloring utensil of their choice. They may also need scissors, if they choose.
When they are done with the pages, you could laminate them or put them in a folder so they can reference them later!
Extending The Activity
It would be super fun to have a foreign country week and do a different country each day. There are multiple, inexpensive ways that you could transform your home into a ‘foreign country’ in no time. Here are some of my ideas:
- Play music from the country
- Play documentaries about the country (YouTube, Discovery Kids, etc)
- Eat a meal or snack from that country
- Even play dress up, with items in your home, to resemble outfits from that country
Learning about other countries is interesting and exciting! Kids will love this activity!
Also try our Fizzing Flag Sensory Play
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