Color a Kachina
Print provided kachina for students to color. Glue it to cardboard and make it stand. Decorate with leather scraps, pine sprigs, feathers, etc.
Make Piki Bread
You'll need a teaspoon of baking soda (Hopi used green juniper ash but if not prepared correctly it can be toxic), three cups water, one cup blue cornmeal, and sunflower oil for greasing stone. Mix blue cornmeal, baking soda, and water. Stir with wooden spoon or stick. Let cool. Spread VERY thin layer on hot greased griddle or stone with palm of hand. Shortly lift from griddle/stone by rolling from one end to the other, like a jelly roll. Piki bread is much thinner than today's tortillas.
Make Hopi Corn Cakes
Boil 30 corn husk leaves. In a bowl, add a cup of boiling water to a cup of cornmeal. Mixture should have the consistency of a thick milkshake. Add half a cup of honey and blue food coloring (Hopi corn was blue). Plop a couple spoonfuls of mixture onto the center of each of about 20 corn husk leaves and fold them into small packages. Tie them with shredded husks (the other ten leaves). Place in boiling water and cook 15 to 20 minutes.
Blue corn chips, blue popcorn, and pinyon nuts can be purchased.
