Following on from our recent castle visits, I wanted to help the children understand how the castles, that we saw, went from being fit for a king to dusty, old, broken walls. In a fun way, of course. I thought of using the wooden blocks to build a castle, but […]
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Making an ancient Egyptian pot and snail racing
This was the other part of AJ’s ancient egyptian project. Every museum, seems to have reconstructed pots, so we decided to have a go. Fortunately, I already had a broken flower pot, which I had let outside over the winter. Bedding plants had grown around it. AJ dug through the […]
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Today we made these out of Fimo, based on Nekatu, the little girl in Croco’nile. AJ spent time translating the egyptian hieroglyphics in the book, once I had found the key, which was missing from our copy. Unprompted, she went on to write her name using the same code. It […]
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