Olympic Opening Ceremonies Are Today!

This is the final day of the Coloring and Craft Blog Countdown to the Olympics. Perhaps you can gather you crafts and coloring together and have a fun Olympic themed party as you watch the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008.

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown pages are of some recipe ideas to make and enjoy, as related to the Olympics.

Olympic Rings Doughnuts and Biscuits - This site has two recipes of making doughnuts and biscuits that look like the Olympic rings. Both pretty easy to at least get kids involved in decorating.

Easy Chinese Recipes - This site has a few easy to make at home Chinese recipes. If you are too lazy to do this, then you could order Take Out Chinese, but these are pretty easy to cook up at home.

Beijing Olympic Recipe Ideas - This site includes some Chinese recipes included fortune cookies, which are actually Chinese American, but fun nonetheless.

Historic Greek Foods - Here are some Historic Greek foods in honor of the setting of the Ancient Olympic games.

Past Olympic Village Recipes - This site has some interesting recipes that were served to the athletes at the Olympic Village at past Olympic games.

1 Day Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Olympic Preschool Printables. The printables on this site include an Olympic torch maze and ideas for Olympic Day games.

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Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Gold Medals Craft. This craft is of making gold medals, which you can then use in your own mini-Olympics. You can vary and make the different colors of silver and bronze as well.

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Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Make Your Own Olympics. This site has ideas for making your own Olympics at home. This includes making an Olympic torch, Water Weights, and Olympic Pins.

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Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Olympic Torch Memory Game. Yeah, this is an online game, but I was thinking that after you check it out you can challenge the kids to make their own version. Thus it would turn into a craft project.

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Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Olympics Cyberhunt. This is a fun fill in the blank trivia worksheet with online links to help figure out the answers.

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Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown pages are Swimming Coloring Pages. I did not find any good single pages with swimming coloring pages, so instead below is a list of some of the swimming coloring pages I found.

Woman Swimming
Ernie Goes Swimming
Diving
Synchronized Swimming
Boy Jumping in Swimming Pool

7 Days Until 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Today's Olympic coloring/craft countdown page is Sports Coloring Pages and Posters. This site has coloring pages for pretty much every Summer Olympic games event. Just scroll down a little to the section of Summer Sports.