A school of fish

This celebration was so much fun. While planning it, I found so many awesome ideas that I DIDN'T want to do (complicated/expensive/ti...

There are many, many good ideas out there for making Ancient Egypt-style jewelry! And we tried several of them. I never thought I would v...

We saw this idea about  how to make an Egyptian amulet  (hint: you just use air-dry clay, ha ha) and knew it would be a fun project. We h...

One thing I remember pretty clearly from my grade-school years is the time I made my own "papyrus" for a school project. I don...

There are lots and lots of teaching resources for Ancient Egypt, so I didn't really have to come up with many activities on my own. O...

This was one of the coolest crafts we have done, I think—I mean, the final result is just so…funny and weird and impressive all at once, ...

click top or bottom section to enlarge I wish we could have had my Aunt Kay here to be the guest teacher for this Ancient Egypt Unit....

We did a whole unit on Nuclear Energy a few years ago. It was one of our favorite units! You can find all the posts about that unit aggreg...

We talked about the Holocaust  very briefly  a long time ago, but as the children are older now, we covered it in a lot more depth this ti...

(click top or bottom section to enlarge) I feel like World War II consumed so much of our year, although the unit itself took only a c...