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RUSSIA CHALLENGE
RUSSIA CHALLENGE
To complete the challenge follow the activities from
each of the 5 sections:
Famous People
Traditional Crafts
Food and Drink
Russian Life
Guiding in Russia
Instructions and Templates can be found at the back
of the booklet along with fundraising ideas.
Special thanks to Teresa Ellis, Staffordshire, for putting this
challenge together.
Famous People
The girls should work together in sixes or other small groups to choose what they
would like to do. Choose one category and do the activities in that section.
Ballet
Anna Pavlova and Rudolph Nureyev are famous Russian ballet dancers - what can you find
out about them?
 Find 6 facts about the two famous Russian Ballet Companies – The Bolshoi
Ballet of Moscow and Kirov Ballet of St Petersburg, and make a display of
what you have found.
 Learn a few ballet steps and use them in a short dance (If you can already
do ballet perform a dance to your unit) and make a ballerina doll or a pair
of ballet shoes using beads.
Music
Famous Russian composers include Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Rimsky–Korsakov.
 Listen to some of their music and talk with your six about how it makes you
feel. For example:
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Tchaikovsky – ‘Swan Lake’, ‘Piano Concerto No 1’, ‘The Nutcracker’
Stravinsky – ‘The Nightingale – 3 Act Opera’, ‘The Firebird Ballet’
Rimsky-Korsakov – ‘The Snow Maiden Opera’, ‘Flight of the
Bumblebee’
 Learn the cup song (YouTube has lots of different versions) or create your
own band using home-made instruments or learn new songs.
Space
Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova are famous for space travel. Find out some facts
about these two astronauts then with your six do one of the following: Design and make a space suit for one of your group
 Imagine you are weightless and make up a space walk
 Make a space rocket from Junk
 Learn about some of the planets and make a solar system mobile
 Visit the Space Centre in Leicester
Traditional Crafts
Choose and make one of the following:-
Lacquer box - Paint a box and decorate it with a traditional
Russian design.
http://www.craftsforkids.com/projects/1300/1308/1308_3.htm
Faberge Eggs -Paint a polystyrene egg and decorate it with
gems and ribbon.
http://www.craftsforkids.com/projects/1300/1308/1308_4.htm
Matryoshka Dolls – make and decorate your own
set of nested dolls. Instructions for this can be found at
the back of the booklet.
Design a wooden spoon or clothes peg – Using red,
green and black make a design and finish it off with gold.
Instructions for this can be found at the back of the booklet.
Food and Drink
Have a go at making and
tasting one or more of
the following Russian
recipes.
Sharlotka (Apple Cake)
Ingredients
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cup flour
cup sugar
eggs
Baking apples, such as Granny Smith
How to make
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Preheat oven to 350°F.
Combine flour, sugar, and eggs, beating well to completely dissolve the sugar.
Wash the apples, cut them into quarters, and cut away the core and seeds.
Cut the apples into thin slices.
Grease a round cake tin and dust it lightly with flour to prevent the cake from
sticking.
6. Arrange all apple slices on the bottom of the tin.
7. Pour the batter mixture over the apples, spreading it gently.
8. Bake for 25 minutes insert the point of a knife into the centre of the cake, if it
comes out clean and the cake is beginning to pull away from the edges of the tin it
will be ready to remove from the oven.
9. Cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack. Run a knife around the edges of the tin, and
place a serving plate over the tin, turn upside-down onto the serving plate. May be
served warm or at room temperature.
10. Serve with cream or Ice-cream.
Serves 10 to 12
Sbiten (Russian National Winter Beverage)
Ingredients
• 10 cups water
• 1 pound berry jam (16 ounces)
• ½ cup honey
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon or 2 cinnamon sticks cracked to
release the flavour
Optional extras
Juice of 2 lemons
Mint Leaves
Chilli sticks (2)
How to Make
1. Measure the water into a large pot and heat until the water boils.
2. Stir in jam, honey, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon.
3. Simmer for 5 minutes, stir occasionally. Ladle into mugs and serve hot.
Serves 10 to 12.
Blini (Russian Pancakes)
Ingredients
3 eggs
2 tablespoons sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1½ cups milk
1 cup flour (buckwheat flour is traditional)
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
Vegetable oil
How to make
1. Beat eggs in a medium mixing bowl until foamy. Add sugar, salt, and milk.
2. Add flour and mix well until no lumps remain. Add vanilla essence.
3. Pour a little vegetable oil into a small frying pan. Heat the pan over medium
heat.
4. Using a ladle, pour a very thin layer of batter into the pan.
5. Cook until edges begin to curl and brown, and then carefully turn to brown the
other side.
6. Serve with butter, jam, sour cream, or fresh fruit
Salat Oilvier (Russian Salad)
Ingredients
• 3 large potatoes
• 2 carrots, boiled and diced
• 4 hardboiled eggs; 3 should be chopped and 1 cut into
quarters for garnish
• ½ onion, finely chopped
• 2 Gherkins chopped
• ½ cup canned or frozen peas, drained
• ¼ pound Spicy sausage, chopped
• 2 to 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 4 to 6 large lettuce leaves washed and drained
How to Make
1. Peel the potatoes, cut them in half, and place them in a saucepan with the carrots
and onion. Cover with water, heat until the water boils, and simmer until the
potatoes and carrots can be pierced with a fork (about 15 minutes). Drain and
allow to cool.
2. When cooled, cut into cubes and place in a large mixing bowl.
3. Add remaining ingredients (except mayonnaise) and toss gently to combine.
4. Stir in 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise to hold ingredients together.
5. Place the lettuce leaves on a plate, and arrange the salad in a pyramid
6. Garnish with hardboiled egg slices
Serves 6 to 8.
Borsht (Soup)
Ingredients
1 prepared pack Beetroot
2 large or 3 medium potatoes, sliced into bite-sized pieces
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 carrots, grated
½ head of cabbage, thinly chopped (see picture)
1 can kidney beans drained
2 bay leaves
4pts Chicken stock
5 Tbsp ketchup
4 Tbsp lemon juice
¼ Tsp freshly ground pepper
1 Tbsp chopped dill
How to make
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Fill a large saucepan with 4pts of Chicken stock.
Slice the potatoes, add to the stock and boil for 15 minutes.
Grate both carrots and dice the onion. Add to the saucepan continue cooking.
Stir in ketchup.
Thinly shred ½ a cabbage and add it to the saucepan when potatoes are half
cooked.
Slice the beetroot into match sticks and add them back to the saucepan.
Add lemon juice, pepper, bay leaves and can of kidney beans to the saucepan.
Cook another 5-10 minutes, until the cabbage is done.
Serve into bowls with a swirl of sour cream and decorate with Dill.
Russian Life
Choose and complete one activity from the following:-
 Places of interest
Find out about famous tourist attractions and make a model of one of them. For
example-:
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St Basils Cathedral
Peterhof Palace and Gardens, St Petersburg
The Bolshoi Moscow
Bolshoi St Petersburg State Circus
The Kremlin and Red Square
The Winter Palace
The Brownies could make a model from recycled material.
 Dress
Find out some information about Traditional Russian dress.
Make a traditional Russian hat and have a hat parade.
To make the hat – use a card cylinder as the base then
decorate with fabric, ribbon, tissue etc.
Let the girls’ imagination take over.
 Language
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Learn to say ‘Hello’, ‘Goodbye’ and ‘Thank you’ in Russian.
RUSSIAN
PRONUNCIATION
MEANING
Здравствуйте
Zdrastvooyte
Hello
Спасибо
Spaseeba
Thank you
До свидания!
Da sveedaneeya
Good-bye!
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Complete the ‘Wordsearch’ at the back of the booklet.
Guiding in Russia
Do at least one of the following:
 Learn the Russian Promise below – how is it different from your own?
A Girl Scout is true to her word.
A Girl Scout finishes what she starts.
A Girl Scout strives to be useful and to help others.
A Girl Scout is friendly, cordial, and polite.
All Girl Scouts are sisters.
A Girl Scout is a friend of nature.
A Girl Scout is devoted to her parents, is disciplined, and obeys her leader.
A Girl Scout is thrifty and respects the property of others.
A Girl Scout is clean and noble in her thoughts and actions.
A Girl Scout never loses heart.
 Guides in Russia have to complete challenges under the following headings. What
activities do you do that fit into these headings? Try something new for one of
them.
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Me and my Scouting family
Me and my spiritual world
Me and society
I think
Me and my health
I am a homemaker
I am creative
Me and nature.
 Colour in a Russian Badge and cut it out (Template at the back of the booklet)
More information about Guiding in Russia can be found at World Association of Girl Guides
and Girl Scouts - our world: Russian federation www.wagggs.org
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Fund Raising
Help Girlguiding Midlands raise money to take 100 Russian orphans to camp.
Ideas to help you - or of course you could use your own!
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Make a Matryoshka Doll out of a plastic bottle and fill it with coins – you could do
this as a six or as a Unit.
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Hold a ‘Beetle Drive’ using the Russian Badge (see instructions at the back of the
booklet).
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Invite friends and relatives to a Russian Evening – make some of the pegs to sell as
paper clips, perform your dance and let them taste the Russian food. Charge them
to come in and have stalls to raise extra money.
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Hold a quiz night – all about Russia!
Any money raised should be sent to ‘Girlguiding Midlands, 21 Lower Church Street, Ashbyde-la-Zouch, Leicestershire LE65 1AB’, Cheques made payable to ‘The Guide Association
Midlands’
Templates and Instructions
Lacquer Box
http://www.craftsforkids.com/projects/1300/1308/1308_3.htm
Wooden Spoons
Instructions:
1. Draw a pattern on the bowl of the spoon or on the peg.
2. Use black pens/paint for the background, red for the outer rim and a little way
down the handle and green for the leaves.
3. Colour the rest in gold, including the inner rim of the spoon.
4. Make the next section of the handle gold, then red and the end black.
5. For pegs do a simple design and use the same colours as spoon.
Faberge Egg
http://www.craftsforkids.com/projects/1300/1308/1308_4.htm
Ballerina Pony Bead Pattern
http://www.makingfriends.com/ponybead/ponyballerina.htm
Ballet Shoes Pony Bead Pattern
http://beadiecritters.com/patternpages/beadballetshoes.htm
Matryoshka Doll
www.activityvillage.co.uk
Instructions:
Colour and cut out a set of dolls. Cut out 5 strips of paper 5cm wide and 21cm, 19cm,
17cm, 15cm and 12cm long
Lightly spread the bottom half of each doll with glue stick - from the widest part of their
body down. Match the dolls with the appropriate strips of paper, and place them in the
centre of the strip, so that the bottom edge of their body touches the bottom of the strip.
When dry, circle the strip and fasten at the back, allowing a centimeter overlap, glue or
staple.
Your dolls are ready to stack!
Matryoshka Doll Template
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/printable-russian-dolls.
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/printable-russian-dolls.
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Words to find and their meanings
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camp
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Russian Badge Template
‘Beetle Drive’ (Think up your own name for this activity)
Each person will need paper and pencil. Each group will need a dice and shaker.
Throw a 6 to start for the disc. Then draw in each part when the correct number is
thrown. However the stalk needs to be in place before the flowers can be drawn on.
Scoring:
1- Each crescent shape (Trefoil)
4 – Motto scroll
2 – Each Flower
5 – Stalk
The winner is the first person to complete the badge.
3 – Each leaf
6 – Badge disc (throw first)