As part of history today, the kids and I took a few minutes to learn a bit about the voyage that was supposed to result in a shorter route to India for trade. I kept it short and simple since we mainly have little attention spans.
After the talk, we set to work painting egg carton cups for boats. (I got the idea from here after a quick Google search for an easy craft.) Each child painted three. One for the Nina, one for the Pinta and one for the Santa Maria.
To keep craft time manageable, I made sure to do it while Simon was down for his morning nap. I didn't want to see the mess he'd create.
Once the cups were dry, we stuck a wad of play-dough in the bottom of each. We were supposed to use toothpicks to create masts for the sails, but we didn't have any. Thankfully we had a bunch of wooden chopsticks. Those worked quite well. The kids decorated their sails and put everything together.
Jayme decided that the sides of the egg carton pieces she had looked like sails, so she painted those instead of adding the playdough and chop-stick pieces. They turned out nicely.
Once everyone else had their pieces together, we moved them to the kitchen counters to continue drying while we cleaned up. Here are Jeff's boats.
Do you have any memorable craft projects you did?
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