World Showcase

Today at school was the first grade country presentations on individual countries.  They call the event "It's Our World" Extravaganza.  The kids learn about a country, find answers to questions from their teacher, decorate a doll to look like someone from that country, present their country info the the class and the parents, then share food from that country.

The night before I started baking a traditional Norwegian wedding cake called a Kransekake.  Andy's friend from work is Norwegian and he gave us the molds for making the cake.  The cake tastes a bit like an almond flavored cookie.  These were my test rings to make sure it turned out alright before I started on the project.

Here they are baking.  I had to make numerous rings for the cake so it took me a while to get them all baked.  I had to make the middle sized rings separately from the inner and outer sized rings on the mold.  It wasn't difficult, but it did take most of my evening.

The next morning I had to ice, stack and decorate the cake.  The pictures I saw had mini flags all over the cake so I printed some on cardstock and used toothpicks.

There were foods from all over the world.  This cake was almost completely gone by the time everyone was finished eating.  Sis took some to school today in her lunch because she liked it so much!  You can see the chocolate bar that Aage gave Sis for her project.  There wasn't ANY of that leftover!  It was really good so I can see why it was gone quickly!

Here she is giving her presentation.  She was a bit nervous but did a great job.  Some of the kids were so quiet you couldn't hear them or stumbling over their words.  My advice to Sis was not to worry about the Norwegian words because no one else would know if she pronounced the correctly or not!  She had a lot of fun doing this project.  All the decorated dolls from the different countries were posted around a globe outside in the hallway.  They were all very creative.