I recently saw a picture in passing of fluffy cupcakes decorated as lambs for Easter, and since My Little Man loves to bake, I knew this project would be right up his alley. I don’t remember where we saw the picture, so we decided to make up our own ‘recipe.’ These cupcakes are not exactly… Continue reading “Lamb of God” Cupcakes
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DIY Egyptian Cookie Map
Whenever we kick off a new unit of a place, we start out by watching a few YouTube travel videos and studying maps. The kids love maps. They love trying to determine what the weather might be based on the location’s proximity to the equator, what sort of animals might live there, and even to… Continue reading DIY Egyptian Cookie Map
Chinese New Year Party with Winter Promise
I received a free copy of Winter Promise’s Children Around the World curriculum in exchange for a series of posts about how we are using it. This is one such post. For my complete review and disclosure policy, click on the ‘Full Disclosure’ tab above. We recently spent several weeks studying China for our… Continue reading Chinese New Year Party with Winter Promise
World Tour: Fruit Galette
We really had fun with French foods, but one of our favorites was the galette. A large free form fruit tart, it was sweet and fun to make. Because this summer has been so crazy hot, we changed the recipe up a bit to make our own individual galettes instead of one big one… Continue reading World Tour: Fruit Galette
World Tour – Origami
While shopping a few weeks ago, I stumbled across an animal Origami kit for only $0.50. Who could beat that? I decided that we should definitely add Oriental paper-folding to our Japanese unit. Our kit had pictorial directions and contained 8 sheets of paper to make 4 different animals. I ‘practiced’ on a ladybug and didn’t think… Continue reading World Tour – Origami
World Tour – Mount Vesuvius
As we’ve studied the Epcot countries this summer, we’ve done more than study their most famous landmarks and desserts (although we’ve done a fair amount of that). My Little Man loves animals and science, so we went to the National Geographic website. Their kids’ site is great and includes short videos of issues within many… Continue reading World Tour – Mount Vesuvius
World Tour – Michaelangelo & The Kitchen Ceiling
Italy is well known for its art, and so we had to study Michelangelo. We started by reading Michelangelo by Mike Venezia. The book was wonderful – it was basically a child-friendly biography of the artist that included many photographs of his most famous works. Being fascinated with the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel, we looked… Continue reading World Tour – Michaelangelo & The Kitchen Ceiling
World Tour – The Pennsylvania Dutch
I can’t show you any pictures of this one. It’s not allowed. We branched out of our tour of Germany and studied about how some Germans emigrated to Pennsylvania in search of religious freedom,, and how the culture modified and changed into what we know as the Amish culture today. I grew up near Big… Continue reading World Tour – The Pennsylvania Dutch
World Tour – Painting Like Monet
There are too many wonderful artists from France to pass up, and so this week we chose to study Monet. We read Monet by Mike Venezia to learn about his life and artistic style. We also read a book by the same series called Picasso by Mike Venezia. (Picasso was actually Spanish but lived in France for… Continue reading World Tour – Painting Like Monet
France – Bread, Cheese, & Wine
When French food comes to mind, bread, cheese, and wine are always in the mix somewhere! We decided that we definitely had to try out some of these basics. Since our week’s schedule went from calm to crazy quite unexpectedly, we decided that this would be the perfect time to have a French snack. (We… Continue reading France – Bread, Cheese, & Wine
