» Unplug Your Kids: Rough Mind Games

Posted by: piseco | 4th Aug, 2008

Unplug Your Kids: Rough

We’ve been so involved with our own projects for the last few weeks that we haven’t done things to fit the Unplug Your Kids theme. But this week, I was instantly inspired. Our history chapter this week was about mummies and pyramids in the sandy deserts of Egypt and so I brought out the quite rough sandpaper!

We photocopied this image of a flattened pyramid (a square surrounded by four triangles) because I happened to find it in a book we were using. You can find lots of them to print online, including some here and here. JediBoy cut out the pattern while I found a few sheets of sandpaper from our art studio (we love to just draw on it with crayons or chalk).

Then he traced the pattern onto the back of the sandpaper…

cut out the pattern from the sandpaper…

folded the triangles up…

and now we have Sandpaper Giza!

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Responses

Very cool. I will be using this idea when we study egypt this year.

By: Heather on August 4th, 2008
at 7:15 am

Interesting pyramids! We haven’t studied much about Egypt, but now Jaylene is interested. We’ll have to get a book from the library.

By: Julie K in Taiwan on August 4th, 2008
at 7:43 am

very cool!

By: teaching tinytots on August 4th, 2008
at 7:53 am

How fun! Great idea.

By: Robyn on August 4th, 2008
at 10:48 am

this is so cool… I had thought of doing something with sandpaper but we didnt have any new stuff… just some old worn down of daddy’s… I might add some to our art supply… thanks for the idea

By: Bobbie on August 4th, 2008
at 3:07 pm

I thought of sandpaper but wasn’t sure what to do with it. Very cool! We just saw a mummy exhibit at our local museum so this would be a fun follow-up.

By: Emily White on August 4th, 2008
at 3:11 pm

I like the pyramids idea too, especially since Egypt is so full of sand, you could talk about deserts too.

By: Lisa on August 4th, 2008
at 9:57 pm

This is such a cool idea! I’m definitely going to keep it in mind for next your when we’re studying world history.

By: Ashley on August 4th, 2008
at 10:42 pm

That is such a fantastic idea!!! I’ve written this one down so that we can come back to it when we study Egypt this coming fall

By: Nature Mama on August 5th, 2008
at 2:09 am

I love that you incorporated something that you were already working on with this week’s unplugged theme. Great idea!

By: Cara on August 6th, 2008
at 11:22 am

I thought of sandpaper too - I like your little pyramids - very cute!

By: Michie on August 6th, 2008
at 12:58 pm

Very fun. I love how you tied in what you were studying.