This week in history we are covering "The Patriarchs: from Ur to Egypt." Our history activities have been getting "bumped" from the schedule, as I was afraid they would -- so far we have not built ziggurats, made clay bricks (with straw), or made Egyptian paddle dolls, all of which were planned -- and this week I decided that we Would do our activities. So yesterday I cancelled Math and we made lentil stew and fake locust biscuits (with almonds instead of locusts), and wove on a loom. The lentil stew looked like lumpy slime but was edible, the biscuits were... well, biscuits, and the kids enjoyed sitting in Katie's pink Barbie tent pretending to be Abraham and Sarah entertaining angels. The loom was a pain in the neck, though the cats enjoyed it thoroughly (actually, the cats' enjoyment of it was part of the Reason it was a pain).
Ed found me nuts for weights on the strings, but said they were expensive and he wanted them back when we were done, so I tied wimpy knots and the nuts kept falling off. And it would take me Forever to weave enough cloth to make a handkerchief, even if I knew how to tie off the ends when I was done, which I don't. Katie wants to weave a rug for her Barbie house, but I have no idea how to do it. Pathetic. I'd have never made it as a Patriarch's wife.
Ed found me nuts for weights on the strings, but said they were expensive and he wanted them back when we were done, so I tied wimpy knots and the nuts kept falling off. And it would take me Forever to weave enough cloth to make a handkerchief, even if I knew how to tie off the ends when I was done, which I don't. Katie wants to weave a rug for her Barbie house, but I have no idea how to do it. Pathetic. I'd have never made it as a Patriarch's wife.
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I think I would also fail as a matriarch. They also used to spin their thread using a drop spindle. I have no idea how that was done!
I'm really glad the cats had fun, though. How is the Ziggarat coming? That, I might be able to do. If you give me legos!
Elisheva,
Katie also reminded me that we had skipped a step in our effort to make cloth from scratch when we bought rolls of yarn at the Walmart. Bo could certainly furnish us with enough fur to make thread, but I am quite sure spinning is beyond me. Though I could drop a spindle.
I don't think we will Ever get to the ziggurat(s). They were Supposed to be made from stacked up boxes, covered in glued on cornmeal, and painted. The problem of where to Store these bulky projects only occurred to me after I planned out the first nine weeks.
That is an awesome project! Is that a SOTW project?
You can always make the bulky projects, get some awesome photographic proof of said projects, and then you're free to be rid of them and keep the pictures to enjoy for however long you would like!
Thanks, Dy!
We are doing Tapestry of Grace this year, and the loom idea is from Old Testament Days: An Activity Guide, by Nancy I. Sanders.
I was afraid that if we did TOG this year, our projects would also pile up and never.get.done. But they sure look like fun!
Are you still enjoying the curriculum?
Jules,
I was a little worried about being overwhelmed by TOG, but we are enjoying it very much. Even though not all the projects I would Like to do get done, we are still doing more than we did before. I made 9 week notebooks up for each kid before we started, which saved me from getting bogged down in the planning.
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