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USA State Mazes

September 13, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

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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.

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

  • USA State by State Activity Notebook
  • USA State Birds Art Pack
  • 50 State Mazes Activity Book

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

 

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Filed Under: Geography Crafts, History Printables, Homeschool Curriculum, U.S. Government, U.S. History Tagged With: curriculum, geography, history, mazes, USA States

Physical Map Collage

StateMapThese 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:

Maps2   geomaps    geoatlas GeoPuzzle2


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

Learning about landforms can be lots of fun! Students just need to walk outside to see the beauty of God’s creation. Unique designs and features can be found in the variety of different plants, animals, and yes, even landforms! If you have any special landmarks or attractions nearby, this is a great opportunity to get out and about to explore for a homeschool field trip!

Encourage children to Look for mountains, rivers, lakes, ponds, hills, plains, and so much more! When you return, have children make a landform diorama to expand 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!

Free Landform Worksheets for Kids

Books About Landforms for Kids

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DIY Landform Diorama for Kids

Materials:

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

Step 1:

Before you can make a landform diorama, you’ll need to find a base. You can use the lid of a cardboard box, a Styrofoam packing insert, or really anything that is wide and shallow. This is something you don’t need to keep for anything else as we’ll be gluing thing down inside.

Step 2:

Glue a piece of green construction paper to the bottom of your container. This will serve as land areas we can build on! Grab some brown play dough and make a large mountain for the corner of your diorama. Use your thumb to press a small indentation on the side of the mountain. Using white paint to represent snow, paint the top of the mountain so that is it “snow-capped.”

Step 3:

Using blue paint, paint inside the groove on the mountain (representing the snow melting and a traveling stream) and near the base of the mountain. This is a great visual for students to understand how in the summer snow melts and water travels from the top of the mountain down to the valley.

Step 4:

Continue the path of water to the upper corner of the container. This will be our river and our ocean later.

Step 5:

Add a few more landforms around your diorama. Place a small hill over near the mountain. Add a land island in the middle of your water. Use moss to represent forests. Paint a separate body of water that can represent a lake or pond.

Step 6:

Cut a small wedge of sandpaper to fit the remaining corner of the container. This can represent a dessert in our landform diorama.

Step 7:

Use a label maker or small label stickers to add titles to each of your landforms. If you are using this project for a science fair, you can number each title to correspond with your science display board or written report.

Step 8:

If you have small plastic animals available, these would be a great way to expand your project to showcase animal habitats! Just don’t place your polar bear in the desert!

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:
australia crafts for kids

We made boomerangs (That work!)
boomerang craft for kids

We made music with a “Didgeridoo”:
didgeridoo craft for kids

We even painted our faces:
aboriginal art

We had a GREAT time learning about the Land Down Under!
I added these all to our Australia Themed Crafts on the main site!

Feel free to Bookmark, Pin, Staple….or whatever if you see something useful :)

Filed Under: Australia Crafts, Countries & Places Tagged With: aboriginal, art, Australia, boomerang, cave drawing, continent, countries and places, crafts for kids, didgeridoo, educational crafts, geography, geology, history, homeschool craft, social studies

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