Hands On History

Ni Hao, Todays art around the world comes to you from China. Tangrams are an ancient Chinese puzzle. The object of the puzzle is to use the seven tangram pieces to form new figures. It is a lot more difficult then it looks. To go along with our craft/puzzle we read Grandfather Tang's Story. This can be used as a math lesson, its great cognitive hands on practice, but we chose to make it an art lesson. I printed the tangram pieces on different colored paper just to give it a pop of color...

Medusa mask step 7

How to make DIY dinosaur fossils for kids dino dig party

"American Revolution Unboxed Inside this Box Write with a quill pen and ink just like our founding fathers Make a “Paul Revere” tin punch lantern Enjoy a cup of liberty tea while learning about the Boston Tea Party Read excepts from George Washington’s journal & the poem of Paul Revere’s Ride"

Dale Chihuly sculpture made out of plastic bottles in honor of Earth Day. The downstairs hallway was transformed into a prehistoric cave art exhibit. Students had drawn animals on brown paper and made torches with lights inside. As viewers walked through the dark cave, they held their torches up to the wall and paintings of horses, bison, mammoths, and deers were illuminated. Kindergarten's paper mache mushrooms. First grade's studies on Rene Magritte, Aboriginal Handprints, Edgar Degas...

As a knod to Chinese New Year, I brought in some long scroll paintings that I had purchased in China in the 1990s. I was inspired by the beautiful flower plum trees, so also brought in a vase of plum branches. I folded long white contruction paper in half so the kids had the tall canvas. Trying to emphasize the distorted perspective that is common in these paintings, I had the kids use their watercolors to make mountains and a river that stretched down from the top. If they wanted they could...

I'm still surprised with how well we've all adjusted back to school. We're still not starting as early as I would like, but it's getting earlier. Everyone got used to sleeping in later while I was dealing with the tiredness and sickness of pregnancy. I'm still dealing with some sickness, but it's mostly just nausea and has gotten much better. The weather was great this week and I wish we had gotten out to enjoy it more. Looks like next week is going to be nice too so I really want to try to...

This is part 6 of a 12 part a hands-on unit study on Ancient Chinese History & the Sui Dynasty & Tang Dynasty. Create woodblocks, participate in a tea ceremony, dig a miniature canal, & more! Children's book suggestions & video clips. Chinese New Year ideas.

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Today, I'm going to share some Montessori-inspired activities that work well with the Little Passports China package.

Activities: Chinese Shadow Puppets

Build a beautiful pagoda and village with this Chinese diorama printable craft for Chinese New Year!