MeganW Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 (edited) Two other families are coming here every other Friday in the fall to do SOTW activities. Obviously we will only be doing about a third to half the activities as we are only meeting once every other week. Which activities were your kids' favorites? If you had a top 3-5, which were they? ETA: Volume 1 - Ancients Edited May 24, 2012 by MeganW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Which volume of SOTW? We only did volume 1 and the very first part of 2, but Ariel loved building and playing with the shaduf and making a "skin" hunting bag and then hunting for plastic lizards and snakes around the house. The bird mummy was interesting. We used a Cornish game hen instead of a chicken because it was smaller and took less time. She also enjoyed dressing as a Celt and pretending to be Alexander the Great catching Bucephalus. Coloring the pictures and doing the maps seemed to help make the info stick better. Basically, she loves anything she can dress up and act out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maisy Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 chicken mummy :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokons Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 We still have our chicken mummy that we made 7 years ago! We used a cornish game hen as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLittleBears Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 chicken mummy :lol: :iagree:Like pp we did cornish game hen, much much easier to handle a small bird. The kids loved it! ETA- They also loved making personalized seals with hard drying clay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokons Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 We really enjoyed the African feast as well, with the papaya stir-fried rice, and the chicken with figs. My kids still ask for the fried rice from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMWB Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 My kids enjoyed many of the 'craft projects', making a scene of Egypt was one that got played with a lot, we also made it very big, both kids could be alligators in the river, or farmers in the field, or 'grave robbers' at the same time. It only lasted a few weeks before it saw the recycle bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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2_girls_mommy Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Funny, we didn't do any of the above. We did do the archeological dig and the cave paintings at the beginning of the year. We learned some Egyptian writing and made scrolls with a sentence on them. We did some feasts. We did dress up like Celts like a PP I remember. And we made a model of a Roman road showing the different layers. I don't know if that was fun, but my girls really remember it. In between there we did a lot of paper, artsy crafts whenever they came up. We made Greek stickers. We made books for the first library. We made clay Sumerian something or others. We made a clay volcano and exploded it for Pompeii. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wy_kid_wrangler04 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Anybody care to share the chicken mummy directions? I don't have the AG as SOTW is only part of our ancients resources next year (we will read it all though ;)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeganW Posted May 25, 2012 Author Share Posted May 25, 2012 Great. The chicken mummy is the one that I was a little squeamish about, and looks like I have to do it! Thanks so much - off to mark the best activities in my book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Oh, no question. The chicken mummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 One thing we did that was really fun for Egypt: We got rubber stamps of heiroglyphs matched up with English letters. I stamped out some messages on strips of paper and hid them in our playroom, taped to the wall in different not-very-noticeable places. Then I "hired" my child to "excavate the tomb." She had to search the playroom with a flashlight until she found the heiroglyphs, translate them, and figure out whose tomb it was. We also got a lot of mileage out of making simple tunics from white pillowcases. Cut a hole in the closed end for the child's head and two more holes on the sides for armholes. It's Egyptian! It's Greek! It's Roman! It's great for any kind of pretend game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekster519 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 We did a fruit mummy instead of a chicken mummy. Much less mess and the kids still really loved it. They also enjoyed using hieroglyph stamps, making a sugar cube pyramid, and dressing up as Egyptians, Romans, Greeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugsMama Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I was unsure about the chicken mummy.... guess I'll have to get over the YUCK factor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 We loved making the Nile River in the pan. :001_smile: Our crops grew beautifully, and we kept it several months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs.m Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 One thing we did that was really fun for Egypt: We got rubber stamps of heiroglyphs matched up with English letters. I stamped out some messages on strips of paper and hid them in our playroom, taped to the wall in different not-very-noticeable places. Then I "hired" my child to "excavate the tomb." She had to search the playroom with a flashlight until she found the heiroglyphs, translate them, and figure out whose tomb it was. Where did you get the stamps? My boys would love that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivka Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Where did you get the stamps? My boys would love that! I bought these, but there are a number of sets on Amazon (and probably elsewhere). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie in MS Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Anybody care to share the chicken mummy directions? I don't have the AG as SOTW is only part of our ancients resources next year (we will read it all though ;)) I am using another Ancients program, but I have heard of this project for years. I did a search and found this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Subbing -- thanks for the great suggestions! I am determined to do the chicken mummy this year, whether my kids want to or not. I want homeschooling mama street cred for doing it, LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 A few my kids enjoyed we're cave paintings, "carving" cuneiform on clay tablets, painting papyrus, archeological dig, sugar cube pyramids (only we used Starbursts and my kids LOVED that! :lol:) Anansi the spider, making a roman fasces.. . We did lots of the paper projects too like the 10 plagues sticker one and the Greek dolls. We didn't do nearly as many projects as I would have liked but we notebooked, colored, and mapped consistently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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