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USA State Mazes

September 13, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

This project has been in the works for a while now, and I’m so excited to release it this week in time for the 2016/17 school year! 50 State Mazes is a great addition to your US History or Geography studies and the perfect accompaniment to our USA State Activity Pack.

This new activity pack is included in our $15 USA Activity Bundle which includes:

U.S.A. Activity Pack

5o State Activity Pages: For each of the fifty states children map the location, capitol, landmarks, abbreviation, nickname, state flower, and state bird. Children color the state flag as well as the state flower and state bird with ample room to add interesting facts and notes. This activity pack includes two games to finish out your unit: USA Bingo & Roll Across America.

U.S.A. State Bird Art Cards

Children can color their way through our Nation’s state birds with these fun and realistic art cards. Each bird is shown with it’s unique markings for children to copy and color their own. Each bird features a coloring card, visual fact card for children to fill in, and memory matching cards. This set include 27 different birds as many states have the same state bird.

U.S.A. 50 State Mazes

50 State Mazes includes a fun and challenging maze for each of the 50 states. This activity pack is sure to excite your children during your U.S. Geography studies. Suggested age range is K-3rd for a challange, but older children will enjoy them as well.

Physical Map Collage

These fantastic maps are not only fun to make, but they are a great way to learn about your state or country’s terrain. This would be a great activity to teach children about the physical properties of land, as well as how to read a physical map

Materials:

Paper Mache Recipe
Newspaper
Mixing Bowl
Paint (blue, green, brown, white)
Paintbrushes

Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Find a good picture of a Physical Map. Draw the outline of the state or country you'll be making.

Step 2

Find some old magazines and tear out some of the colors you'll use for the map. (Substitute bright colors for extra fun!)

Step 3

Set up a glue station for children to dip their brushes

Step 4

Tear up different colors of the magazines and place them in the right places on the map. Using different hues of a color and layering really make the map look more realistic.

All Done

Find the letters to make a title for your map, or even add a map key at the bottom.

Landform Diorama Craft

Many children are visual learners and the use of models is a great way to introduce important information. Use this fun model of the earths layers to learn all about the different components of our wonderful world!

Materials:

Empty Cardboard Box
Green Construction Paper
Play Dough, Sandpaper, Paint, Moss
Labels w/Marker

Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Lay down some green construction paper in your empty box. You can paint the bottom as well.

Step 2

Use your play dough to make a mountain

Step 3

Using your fingers press into the mountain down the side to make a groove

Step 4

Paint the top of the mountain white

Step 5

Use light blue to show the melted snow trickling down the mountain sid

Step 6

Pinch together the sides of your mountain around the groove so that the trickle looks more inside.

Step 7

Draw out our stream and turn it into a river, then the ocean. Add in a couple of playdough hills.

Step 8

Find some moss to make your forests and glue them in the box near your mountain.

Step 9

Here's what we have so far.

Step 10

Use some more playdough to make an island in the middle of your ocean.

Step 11

Use sandpaper to make a bit of desert in the corner. Our paper is white so we painted it tan.

Step 12

Glue it in the corner and brush a little dry ground around it.

Step 13

Get out some sticky labels and write the names of the different landforms you created.

Step 14

Put your diorama on display! These were done for my KG and 2nd grader, but older children can certainly add in many more landforms.

Australia Crafts

July 21, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

I’ve been meaning to post these for a while now,
We finished up our Unit on Australia before the start of Summer,
and I’m just now getting around to sharing them.

Learning about Australia was great fun!

We used HOAC Continent Study on Australia

As well as Discovering God’s Animals (from COAH)

And of course we did lots of crafts too:

We made Cave Drawings: