Monday, February 28, 2011

Carnival in Aalst

Since 2010 carnival in Aalst is official cultural world heritage...
This is the feast Belgium wants to present to their partners...

An impression of procession through the street, with all the different magnificent floats you can find here...

Monday, February 21, 2011

3 track CD

2 track CD



Cd with Carnival songs (first track)




Making of Carnival masks





Making chickpea and sweet potatoes biscuits

During the month of January, pupils at Vila Ruiva School developed the second activity of the project «Wide Open Windows in Europe ». This activity included the confection of chickpea and sweet potato biscuits which are traditional Portuguese sweets very much appreciated in the Carnival period. These delicacies were made by the children and their families and by the local community.
It was a very interesting activity not only because children have improved their knowledge of traditional Portuguese cookery but they’ve also developed arts and crafts skills which were used in the final compilation of the written work.
Hope you enjoy!

Mistery boxes from Portugal

Regarding our second activity, here we post all the 4 mistery boxes (we kept one for us) we made to our partners so that everyone can share it's content.
Hope you like it.


Mistery boxes



 
 Carnival Masks











Cd's showing how the masks were made


Books showing how the cookies were made (english version)

 






Research about Carnival from Cuba

Cd's with Carnival songs

boxes with teh cookies ( and a surprise...)


all the mistery boxes ready to be send