Cookie Maps of ANCIENT EGYPT!

We have been having such a fantastic time studying Ancient Egypt.  We have learned so much and are really enjoying this study.  It's the first time I've really studied Bible at the same time as History as well.  I've always learned them separately (unfortunately) until now, and it has been fascinating for all of us.

The green around the Nile River is to show that area which was fertile because of the Nile flooding every year. 





It looks like the Mediterranean and Red Sea over flowed their banks too!





I don't know how much the little ones got out of the project, but they certainly had fun... and they enjoyed eating the cities and the Nile! 











By the time the kids put the labels on their cookie maps, they didn't even need to look at the atlas or the other maps, they were able to put all of the cities where they belonged.  I love hands on projects, they get so much out of them.  One of the other things I like about this is that, unlike salt dough maps, (which we made of Canada) no one wants to save these for posterity!  Make and learn, take pictures and eat!  YEAH!  And as they eat them the comments are things like, "Wow!  The Mediterranean Sea is delicious!" or "I just ate Thebes!"  Or even Dad and Mom asking, "Can I try a bite of the Red Sea?"  They won't soon forget the landscape of Ancient Egypt.  I've been told to point out that the reason Lower Egypt is North, and Upper Egypt is South is because the Nile River flows down to the Mediterranean Sea.  The finished maps. 







Unfortunately they've just found out that Ariana is allergic to wheat so she didn't get the yummy brown sugar cookie that everyone else did, but her map turned out quite neat showing all the bare, dry land.





Wait until you see what we're doing next week!  It involves a dead chicken... any guesses?!

Handy Work

This is the rebuild of the fort that the boys worked so hard to build. (Including my "other son" - our neighbour "Big Liam". The first one was really great, and looked fantastic. But some kids destroyed that and wrote some "swears" on the inside. The swears being, "JERK" and "LOSER". Actually it said, "Alex you're such a loser." With the retort of, "You're a jerk" underneath that. The kids were so upset. So this time they decided that they would make it look like a junk pile so no one would know that there was in fact a fort underneath. Huh. Good thinking. So far it's worked. It's getting colder, but they are still out there many days; hammering, building, laughing and playing. Because after all, every boy needs a fort.



Ariana and Teigan on their way to visit the boys at the fort. I absolutely LOVE the friendship that these two share. I pray that this will be lifelong for them. I have an incredible friendship that began when we were less than a year older than these two. The thought that Teigan would have a friend like that makes my heart swell.



Teigan can not get enough crafts in lately. She is sewing, beading, weaving... you name it, she's doing it. She has learned how to make friendship bracelets, so that's what she is working on here.



Does every little boy love to build? Mine do. Give them a saw, hammer and nails and they are occupied for hours. Samuel built himself a little shelf for his room out of some of the scrap wood that he found around. I'm not sure if he was practicing, but there are an awful lot of dents no where near the nails! He enjoyed making his project and as of today - it's serving its intended purpose in his room.