It's that time of year again!! Project time!
Our home school group hosts a talent show and project fair every spring. Last year I had a newborn and a 15 month old so we opted out of the projects. Mary did enter the talent show but I wouldn't call it a success. We had planned on doing science projects but we bombed out at the last minute.
I'm probably overdoing it but this year we're doing a science and a social studies project for both big girls!
For the social studies project, I gave them ideas but ultimately let them decide on the topic. Mary chose to study Native Americans that lived in the Plains. So we studied and got to work. We did a diorama of a Plains Indian village.
We made tipis out of paper lunch bags and skewers. After they were shaped and taped, we coated them with mod podge (my favorite thing on the planet) to stiffin them up some. Then Mary painted them.
These were our original horses. They were way too big for our people :) We eventually got rid of them.
We added a buffalo hunt in the distance.
Then we needed a background to really tie it together.
Now it's coming along.
I was so pleased with the way everything turned out. We both learned so much and we had a ton of fun working together to make something cool.
We also found a friend who had some material that was similar to a buffalo hide, so Mary painted pictograms on it. It tells a story about her hunting buffalo and being invited to eat with her friend during the hunt! I love first grade! Good thing too because I get to do it two more times :)
We didn't want Victoria to be left out so she participated by doing her own worksheets, coloring her own Native American boys and girls and dressing them, and painting her own buffalo hide.
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