There was once upon a time an old man and an old woman, and they had three sons ; two were clever, but the third was a fool. The old woman loved the first two, and quite spoiled them, but the latter was always hardly treated. They heard that a writinghad come from the Tsar which said, "Whoever builds

The popularity of matryoshka (nesting dolls) grows from year to year and it spreads to many countries. Matryoshka motives appear in designs of many goods, they became common decorative elements. So this is natural that many people want to try to paint own matryoshka, especially this is interesting for kids.

Now this is possible to buy a set of blank unpainted nesting dolls but they are relatively expensive taking into account that this is easy to spoil the unpainted matryoshka especially for inexperienced artists. Here I would like to offer you an alternative solution how your kids can try to paint matryoshka and it will cost for your nothing. The only limitation is that this is a flat image on a sheet of paper but for small kids this is even better solution.