After Moroccan night and Indian night came Mexican night with our world dinner buddies. On the menu, salsas (verde and roja), homemade tortilla chips, tamales, mole chicken, Mexican rice, black beans, a coconut almond tart and chocolate balloon bowls with ice cream - Yum! (Seth and Noah did all the work so this is not me bragging about my great cooking abilities - it is me bragging about my husband's cooking abilities :) ). To prepare Noah, we read about Mexico and the Maya (which he found very funny - Maya like Maya) and looked at some pictures.
K. and her dad came a bit early to help assemble the tamales. Below Noah with the black beans, pork and masa getting ready (or playing with a balloon)
After assembling the tamales and while waiting for them to cook the kids did some Mexican inspired bracelets... (toilet paper cut in three pieces which they painted black and then glued on lentils and various other beans - see here: http://planetforward.ca/blog/cinco-de-mayo-mexican-bean-bracelet-eco-friendly-craft/).
Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures of the kids and Dave assembling the tamales but below is the finished product.
Noah dipping his balloon in the chocolate after making a little "plate" for the bowl (we got the idea from this youtube video we found during our "chocolate weekend") ...
Sticking the bowl onto the "plate"
K helped with this one...
Dave tried it as well...
Noah wanted to do one more...
After putting the balloon bowls in the freezer for a bit, we popped the balloons and tada - chocolate bowls!
Noah and K eating ice cream in their chocolate bowls.
Look my hand is FULL of chocolate...
His face was too...
Thanks for coming guys.
A few days later, Noah developed a high fever so we tried another Mexican inspired craft - some maracas (decorated paper bags lined with tin foil with rice and beans inside). Below a very feverish Noah with the result (he had 39.5 fever in this pic).
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