While watching a documentary on Ancient Greece the kids became enthralled with the pottery and asked "Can we do that?" As it just so happens I had a 5lb block of self hardening clay that I ordered recently with a bunch of other art supplies. It was meant for something else but heck… we can make Greek Pottery today and I will just have to order more for later.
They were surprised that it was much harder that it looked. Clay is a very different creature than play-dough or salt dough. BTW – it took about 48 hours to dry enough to paint. We used both orange and black paint because the kids wanted theirs to look like the greek pottery in the show which was made with a red clay.
Pixie, who loves play-dough, enjoyed the different texture.
Fairy painted a picture of Athena on her cup.
Bug really wanted his to look like a vase and spent a lot of time shaping his.
Long time, no post. We had a wonderful Christmas and lovely break. We’re back in the swing of things school-wise now and have revisited some of the curriculum that wasn’t working back in August. The kids are loving it now and we are looking forward to a lot of fun with ancient history this winter.
Some stuff we’ve been working on lately…
In Science we have been talking about the water cycle. We have completed a couple labs…
States of Water
Recycling water through evaporation
In History we have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians.
Cardboard Pyramids
Toliet Paper Wrapped Doll Mummies
Lego Pyramid
Peg Dolls Pharaoh & Mummy (for more details check them out on Wee Folk Art shortly)
In art we have completed a few projects from Artistic Pursuits Book 1.
Artists Use Their Imaginations – Water color penicls
Books we are reading…