Thanks, Tammy! That was helpful. I also liked the idea of decorating some cheap pots, putting them in a bag, breaking them up and then trying to piece them back together. That would be fun to try.....
Thanks Jackie for the site adn Jubal and Tubal-Cain info.! That was a big help! I also like your decorating the pots, breaking them and putting them back together---great idea! Sounds fun to me also! After breaking the pottery maybe you could put the pieces in a large container of sand, and they can do a "Dig" to carefully find and document the pieces, THEN try to fit them together! Okay, I gotta give this a try, this sounds fun! Tammy, thanks for your apple idea too! That sounds like a great project! Oh boy, this is gonna be fun!!!
I am loving this thread! We started our MOH over again recently after having to wait for a digital camera for recording projects. Anyway, we made our cuneiforms today....out of clay we dug up out of our yard! 8) We are in the Mississippi River basin and have loads of clay in our soil here....it's best when you get it from the crick :wink: , but this was the next best thing. Anyway, we crumbled up the natural clay, removed all of the organic debris, and rewet it to form our workable clay. Then we used various objects to make our symbols. As long as the sun decides to come out and play tomorrow, we will sunbake the tablets....my dad, who happens to be the father of authenticity, suggested firing the clay instead......then he brought up the fact that it might crack in the fault lines, etc......we'll be sticking to sunbaked clay, I'm sure :roll: ...anyway, just thought someone else might like to try cuneiforms in this way.
Wellll.....I got side-tracked But I found some cool Bible color pages that could be used. Here's the link: http://www.coloring-page.net/bible.html
I found it!!! It's really cool. They've added some to it since I was there last, so I'm going back to check it out more thoroughly. It's in the archives now, so if you were to go directly to the National Geopgraphic site, you'd need to find ngkids, then click on try this and archives, then the egyptian tomb project. Here's the direct link though: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/trythis/egyptiantomb/
Deena, I printed Moses and the Ten Commandments for my younger one to color while I read later this week, and I bookmarked the Egyptian Tomb page. I hope we can keep this up so we can continue sharing what we're all doing. I know some of you have books with project ideas, etc. that I don't have and vice-versa.
I'm so confused! I wrote a message after Brooke's message about the clay, but I don't see it here! Did I accidentally write it in some other message or what :? What I said was that we just have sandy soil here, so we can't use our own, wish we could though, what a great project! Then I asked what other people did/used for their cuneiform/clay project. Any suggestions? THEN I said I knew of a great site for a mummy project, and that I was going to find the site. That's why one of my previous messages said I got side-tracked, then the next one said I found it! I wonder what happened to that message?! Anyway, now you know............... :shock:
Great Jackie! I've used a page for my younger two--Eve in the Garden with the serpent and the fruit. They like the coloring pages that are not babyish. I found a few. What was the name of the museum quality color book Bellerphon or something? We just worked on the Nomads, so I guess we're heading for the cuneiform writing. Does anyone have ideas on what to use for that?
Do you mean the Dover coloring books? I called the local art store and explained to the lady what I wanted to do with the clay. She told me what to buy, and it worked fine. We are even able to bake it in our oven on LOW! The stuff doesn't sun-dry very well.
I dunno! :shock: I thought there were some that started with a b and sounded something like that other name. Are Dover ones good? Thanks Jackie!
Dover has really wonderful coloring books. I've got their butterfly book, one on seashore animals (when we were learning about tide pools), and one on small animals like rabbits and raccoons. They've got a web site, and you can also find their stuff at Barnes and Noble, etc. They also have small colored pictures of the animals, so you can try to get the colors right.
Deena, don't quote me, but Jackie might have used something called "Sculpy"...or something of that nature. It is very smooth and bakes easily in the oven. It comes in a wide range of colors, too.
What did you guys use to make the marks in the clay? Is there something that tells you how to do that and what kinds of marks to make?
Yes, I think it was Sculpty that I used! I got it in Terra Cotta, because it would look more like "real" clay. Yes, I would consider Dover as "museum quality" coloring books. Though I'm looking through, and not finding much as far as the Ancients go...Greek gods and goddesses, Gods of Ancient Egypt seems to be about it. But there's also Belierophon coloring books (pg. 582 of Rainbow Resources) that seems to have a lot, and it says they are actualy reproductions of the art and culture of the period. I've never seen these, but they sound promising. What to use to write on the clay tablets. I can tell you what we used, but this is by no means the ONLY thing you can do. I went to a hobby shop, and bought a triangular stick, similar to a dowel rod, only it was triangular. I got a fairly skinny one. It cost about 70 cents. I cut the rod into about four pieces with a kitchen steak knife. You can use either one edge to make a straight line, or the entire end to make a triangle.
Hey girls...... Thanks Deena for the Bible coloring site......all pictures help! I can't really find any other FREE timeline figures website other than this one: :shock: Does everyone have this one marked? http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/ It has portraits of people listed in alphabetical order..So it will be of great help.. I don't mind paying for some...but its just that so much is on the net now it seems between that and drawing our own pictures we could get all we need....Its nice to have free :wink: From what I understand the rest of the figures come from Sonlight and geograhpy matters..... We either are going to get good at drawing or decide our text is enough on our figures of Seth, Enoch, Jared, Enosh, Lamech,etc.... Its much more easier to find Adam,Eve, Noah and even Cain/Able..... So I just wondering if anybody else has their *hands on* a good set of timeline figures...or is eveyone basically drawing and just doing text?
The Lord happend to place a good Bible history book in my hands a year ago (not knowing what I would use it for at the time....but He did!). It had some great reading on Sumerians and showed their writing tablets. We toyed with several writing objects, but they were not quite triangular, or too thin for dd's dexterity sooooo........we ended up using the triangular end of a can opener! :lol: It worked very well to give us good wedge shapes, even for dd. The tablets have dried very well and we have been discussing how housing all of these fragile tablets would have been a magnificent undertaking. Dd couldn't keep hers from cracking the first day :cry: . In MOH, she suggests making your own timeline figures. She uses a standard "gingerbread" cutout of man or woman (like bathroom signs) and then she gives ideas on what to put on the figure to signify who they are. At first I thought of how I woudl much prefer the artistic quality of the professionally made pictures, but now I'm thinking that we might repeat this curriculum next year when my kids are a bit older, or in a couple years when they are both old enough to enjoy and appreciate it, and then making their own figures would be extremely beneficial to hands-on learners, and for the sake of remembering the historical figures in their own way. Out of curiosity, how old are your oldest kids that are starting SOTW or MOH for the first time? I am concerned that if I wait a year or two ds (now 8) will be too old to go through the entire chronological history with MOH (5 volumes, I think). My dd is only 5 and doesn't really care for the history at all. She much prefers living books, as do I to some degree, so we've been reading about Columbus and so on as well. Any thoughts on this?
Oh, the profound parenthetical problems in my posts are profuse! :lol: Although ds is cool 8) , he is also 8.......someday I'll remember that putting an 8 anywhere between parenthesis does that....or I'll just be glad when ds is 9
Brooke...... My oldest will be 10 next month, my second one just turned 8 this month........ My oldest could move a little faster, second one wants to go slower and discuss EVERYTHING.......my 4 yo helps too, but he runs around when we are doing this, then comes back...he drew some clouds on our creative days and a tree..He was impressed with himself :lol: I haven't looked at the Bellerphon coloring books........, but they are like Dover, museum quality too.. BTW, I did have one more site marked for, who was talking about ancient greece, was it you Jackie...heres a site that can be used for images too of ancient greece http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_contents.html Also, has any tried using google images...WOWEEEE.....I played with that some this evening........and YeAH....I got wonderful picture :shock: s.... I had read that tip on one of the timeline sites :wink: ....so anyway, IMAGES galore, just type in your character and see the images you get for FREE..... I might have to end up breaking down and buying some figures, but I think so far so good!
