• Use this site for great pictures when making lapbooks.  Contributed by Sue.

• Recommended by Carol, this art history project book can be used in all four year-plans, as it goes through the 1980's.  There are 80 projects in this book entitled Great Studio Projects in Art History, and is written by William Reid.  ISBN 0825138523

• Here's real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore!  Enjoy!

• Barb shared a great alternative to salt dough maps: 

Cookie Dough Recipe:
2 c. smooth peanut butter
2 1/2 c. powdered milk
2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
2 c. white corn syrup
Mix all ingredients together and put small portions on waxed paper. Makes about 25 small
maps. 

Use these symbols:
blue icing - lakes and oceans
green sprinkles - plains
clear sprinkles - deserts
chocolate chips - mountains
red candy strips - rivers
M&Ms - capitals
 

Here's a product that we just discovered: Crayola's Model Magic!  This great, lightweight, soft modeling substance comes in four colors, or you can just buy buckets of white.  It air-dries quickly, and after it's dry, it can be sanded, painted, or decorated.  Kinesthetic learners can use this in place of clay to make models of all sorts, as well as jewelry, diorama furniture, puppets--the list is endless!  Model magic can replace Fimo^TM for most projects suggested in Tapestry. 

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Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile

• Egyptian coloring pages to color or for grammar level journal entries: here and here

• From ChristianAnswers.net: Moses and the Burning Bush coloring page

• Senet pdf printable: gameboard and directions

• Play Hounds and Jackals

• Paddle Doll.  Line drawing of another paddle doll

• Reed Boat

• Ancient Egyptian boats

• Make Egyptian jewelry (pdf file)

• Dynamations and coloring pages of from Creation to Nativity

Week 2: Pharaohs and Pyramids

• Andrea has contributed this link for making mummies. Have fun!

• Make a mummy (pdf directions)

• Clip art ideas for Egypt

• Egyptian coloring pages - ideas for tomb paintings

• Tomb painting examples for your project

• Make a cartouche (pdf file)

• Great Pyramid of Khufu (pdf to download and assemble)

• Pharaoh's double crown to make

• Sphinx pdf to download and assemble

• Sphinx pictures to aid your carving project

• Brick making suggestions and questions

• Let's Do Dewey

Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism and the Judgment of God

• Egyptian idol pictures to draw: here or here

• How to make Egyptian clothing

• Make Egyptian Jewelry (pdf file)

Week 4: Creation Through Noah

• Noah and the Ark coloring pages

• Creation or Noah and the Flood coloring pages

• Creation word search.  From ChristianAnswers.net

• D is for Dinosaur teaching notes and coloring pages

• Color Theory for Rhetoric and older.  Beautifully designed site, college level.

• Tintoretto’s Creation of the Animals

• Tiepolo’s Creation of the Universe

• Michelangelo’s The Creation of the Heavens

Week 5: Babel to Ur: Early History of Mesopotamia

• Play the Royal Game of Ur.  Make your own game board and learn the rules (recently discovered!) from this great site! See a picture of the actual Royal Game of Ur board by clicking here.

• Ancient games

• Learn about the explorations of an archaeologist named C. Leonard Woolley, and explore four royal tombs found in Mesopotamia.  Choose tomb 779 on Woolley's diagram to see the Standard of Ur that Woolley discovered. Upper Grammar levels and up.

• NY Metropolitan Museum time line of Art History: Sumerian images: very clear and good!

• FREE download of a board game about Mesopotamia

• Make a cylinder seal after reading about their use in Mesopotamian society.  Very clear: Upper Grammar and up.

• Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

• Tower of Babel painting by Master of the Duke of Bedford

• The Finding of Moses by Paolo Veronese

• Rhetoric students can make their own ziggurat by following instructions here.

• Make a paper model ziggurat.  Pattern and instructions are in this 3-page pdf file.

*Recipes/Seder information under week 9

Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Ur to Egypt

• Judaism: all kinds of useful information.  Please pre-read, but wholesome for most children, I think, and a great help for teachers.

• All the links you'll ever need about the Tabernacle, and Tabernacle models.

• Neat project for learning about the tabernacle!  Contributed by Sarah S.

• Buy tabernacle model kits here.

• Excellent pictures of a Tabernacle model that may help in building your own.

• The Jewish Calendar and Sacred Festivals

• God Calls Abram worksheets for younger children. (pdf)

• Abraham and Isaac etching by Rembrandt

• Rembrandt's Abraham

• Blackline picture of the Star of David.  Use this with various crafts you may make in this unit.

• Listen to a shofar. Link contributed by Ginger.

• Learn how to make Shabbat candles here.

• Make a braided beeswax candle

• Word searches about Passover

• Neat family tree of Terah.  Scoll almost all of the way down to see it in chart form.

• Make a cardboard box loom

Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle and the Law

• *Recipes/Seder information under this section

• Judaism: all kinds of useful information.  Please pre-read, but wholesome for most children, I think, and a great help for teachers.

• All the links you'll ever need about the Tabernacle, and Tabernacle models.

• Neat project for learning about the tabernacle!  Contributed by Sarah S.

• Buy tabernacle model kits here.

• Excellent pictures of a Tabernacle model that may help in building your own.

• The Jewish Calendar and Sacred Festivals

• Jewish Calendar to print and color

• Abraham and Isaac etching by Rembrandt

• Rembrandt's Abraham

• Blackline picture of the Star of David.  Use this with various crafts you may make in this unit.

• Listen to a shofar. Link contributed by Ginger.

• Color pages about Jewish holidays

• Learn how to make Shabbat candles here.

• Make a braided beeswax candle

• Word searches about Passover

• Neat family tree of Terah.  Scoll almost all of the way down to see it in chart form.

• Make a cardboard box loom

Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness: Worshipping God as God

• *Recipes/Seder information under this section

• Judaism: all kinds of useful information.  Please pre-read, but wholesome for most children, I think, and a great help for teachers.

• All the links you'll ever need about the Tabernacle, and Tabernacle models.

• Neat project for learning about the tabernacle!  Contributed by Sarah S.

• Buy tabernacle model kits here.

• Excellent pictures of a Tabernacle model that may help in building your own.

• The Jewish Calendar and Sacred Festivals

• Abraham and Isaac etching by Rembrandt

• Rembrandt's Abraham

• Blackline picture of the Star of David.  Use this with various crafts you may make in this unit.

• Listen to a shofar. Link contributed by Ginger.

• Color pages about Jewish holidays

• Learn how to make Shabbat candles here.

• Make a braided beeswax candle

• Word searches about Passover

• Passover mazes

• Neat family tree of Terah.  Scoll almost all of the way down to see it in chart form.

• Make a cardboard box loom

Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

• *Recipes/Seder information under this section

• Judaism: all kinds of useful information.  Please pre-read, but wholesome for most children, I think, and a great help for teachers.

• All the links you'll ever need about the Tabernacle, and Tabernacle models.

• Neat project for learning about the tabernacle!  Contributed by Sarah S.

• Buy tabernacle model kits here.

• Excellent pictures of a Tabernacle model that may help in building your own.

• The Hebrew Alphabet: pictures are for all ages, text is Dialectic and up.

• The Jewish Calendar and Sacred Festivals

• Abraham and Isaac etching by Rembrandt

• Rembrandt's Abraham

• Blackline picture of the Star of David.  Use this with various crafts you may make in this unit.

• Listen to a shofar. Link contributed by Ginger.

• Color pages about Jewish holidays

• More color pages:  Shabbat or Torah

• Learn how to make Shabbat candles here.

• Make a braided beeswax candle

• Word searches about Passover

• Passover mazes

• Neat family tree of Terah.  Scoll almost all of the way down to see it in chart form.

• Make a cardboard box loom

*Seder/Recipes:

• Go to this site and prepare a Seder plate online!  (Interactive activity, especially good for kids to do while you prepare the actual Celebration!)

• Planning a Seder for your unit-celebration?  Click here for *lots* of great information!!

• Family Seder Meal

• Challah Bread Recipe Link contributed by Brianna

• Egyptian Lentil Stew Recipe

• Easy Lentil Stew Recipe

• Egyptian Fig Cakes

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Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, and Buddhism

• Great information on carving stone--many types--and sources for buying stone in case you decide to try to carve a seal or sculpture this week.  Definitely Dialectic and up.  Great if you're the mom leading this week's craft!

• Various forms of Pachisi, and ideas for making game boards and playing according to traditional rules in India.

• Portable Pachisi craft from Crayola

• OUTSTANDING interactive site about the Indus Valley.  Many photos, great text, super for all ages.  Highly recommended!  Forget the texts and resource books--just have your kids spend time here!  (Warning: a few bare breasted statues.)  Find information about the "bead pot" mentioned in Year 1 Redesigned at this link.

• Artifacts in the Michael C. Carlos Museum from the Far East.

Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius and Taoism

• See your name written in Chinese!
• Chinese dragons are adapted to different media. Then, try one of the activities listed in the Student Activity Pages. Download, print, and color a Chinese dragon for your portfolio. All ages.

• Learn about the history of another ancient game this week: Wei-Ch'i.  The Japanese call it "Go" and most Westerners know it by this name.  Said to be more challenging than Chess, it's a simple game to make and learn.

• Learn the rules of Go, and then make a board and pieces and play it for your family night.  (Challenging for adults; possible for Dialectics and up.)

• Make an abacus!  Download free software to teach you to use your abacus here.

• Buy an abacus and learn to use it!  Download free software to teach you to use your abacus here.

• Activities to use with your student after he has a Chinese abacus: best for Grades 4-6.

• Learn to do Chinese calligraphy!  You can buy a calligraphy set here.

• Two sites from which you can make your own kite.   This site also teaches you to make your own kite, and has printable directions and very nice diagrams.

• Make paper!  Learn how from this excellent site!

• Word search about China

Week 12: Ancient Americas: Inuit, Mound Builders, and Mayas

• Make a gourd birdhouse.  Parental supervision needed.

• One set of instructions on making a gourd rattle or musical instrument called a Shekere

• Lure construction.  This page consists primarily of learning objectives for lure construction and ice fishing, but you can mine it for information about making your own lures.

• Artifacts in the Michael C. Carlos Museum from the Ancient Americas.

• Lessons plans about Ancient Mayan art

• Make your name glyph using a Mayan syllabary. Also has info on numbers and background of their language.

• Great coloring pages for Aztec culture.  This link contributed by Robin.

• Book suggestion by a user:  Mexico! 40 Activities to Experience Mexico Past and Present by Susan Milord.  This is a great book: you'll use it this year and next.  ISBN: 1885593228

Week 13: Early Greeks: Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, and Trojan Cultures

• Greek crafts for younger kids

• The most famous early fresco from Crete, The Toreador

• The Building of the Trojan Horse by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

• Aegean Frescoes

• Lots of images about the Trojan War

• Make a loom out of a cardboard box

Week 14: Early Greeks: Everyday Life, Religion, and Mythology

• Greek crafts for younger kids

• Greek recipes

Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest and Settlement

• Artifacts from this period: Canaanite (mostly Bronze Age) and Israelite (mostly Iron Age--later.) Notice how much cruder the Israelite pieces are, even though they're more recent.  All ages.

• Directions for casting metals, and a source for buying moulds.  Scroll down the home page index looking for the article entitled "6 steps to perfect casting."

• The Blinding of Samson by Rembrandt

Week 16: Judges, Samuel, and Minor Neighboring Cultures

• Samuel's Call Worksheet to print and color.

• The Apotheosis of Homer by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Week 17: The Rise of Saul and the Philistines

• Picture of Mycenaean pottery that shows warriors who look much like Goliath as described in 1 Samuel 17:4-7.

• Detailed instructions for making pottery.  Pinch pots, coil pots, and slab pots!

• Pinch pots: how to make them.

• A picture of Dagon, the fish-god.

• FABULOUS site.  Has hyperlinks to pictures of ruins and artifacts, as well as maps and tons of information about the Philistine culture and its interactions with Israel.  Great for Grammar students' Peoples of Ancient Palestine book illustrations!

• David with the Head of Goliath by Caravaggio

Week 18: David, Shepherd of Israel; the Phoenicians

• The history and "how to" of batik dying.  Note that the history says that ancient Middle East batiks were usually blue!

• Different dye techniques: links and instructions.

• Do many searches for all things Phoenician from this comprehensive site.  Again, parental guidance suggested!  We've done a few key searches for you:

  • Phoenician art/artifacts

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Week 19: Solomon's Divided Heart

• No links.

Week 20: The Divided Kingdom

• Worksheet on the Divided Kingdom for Grammar levels.

• Worksheet on Elijah for Grammar levels.

• Elijah's Prayer Answered for Grammar levels.

• Fun Bible crafts about Elijah:  You'll find a paper-plate raven, some puppets, and more.

Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported

• Two Assyrian Officials: frieze to use for hands-on projects this week.

• Frieze of a King's Head: use for hands-on projects this week.. 

• Painted models of Assyrian soldiers.  Interesting for Grammar and up.  Click on pictures to see them enlarged.

• More good friezes: again, text (message of website) to be previewed by parents, please.

• Worksheet on Jonah, God's Reluctant Prophet for Grammar levels.

Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity

• Daniel in the Lion's Den for Grammar levels.

• Coloring page of Daniel and his friends.  From ChristianAnswers.net

• Write like a Babylonian

Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home

• Temple Rebuilt for Grammar levels.

• Learn more about the Jewish holiday established in the book of Esther: Purim.  A recipe for Hamentaschen and some helpful links.  Dialectic and up.

• Wow!  Click here to download/print an entire coloring book/play of the book of Esther for Purim celebrations!

• Another Purim site: BRIGHT with lots of fun ideas, recipes, crafts, etc.

• Make a Shalach Manos basket for Purim.

Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars, Athens, and Sparta

• Venn Diagram

• Interactive Greece, great for grammar levels

Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian War

• Greek recipes

• How to make mosaics

Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy

• Make Greek masks

Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

• Finish all hands-on projects this week.

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Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome

• VERY nice page on Etruscan Art.

• Etruscan tombs

• Art of the Etruscan world.  Click on the slanted links to see more!

• The Arch and the Vault

• Etruscan and Greek origins of the arch

Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life

• The Construction and Makeup of Roman Roads

• Picture of the Appian Way

Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars

• Make a model of a Roman road

• Make a model of a Roman ship Dialectic and up!

Week 31: From Republic to Empire

• Celtic knotwork.  Great instructions here, but don't follow links on their website without adult supervision.

• Constructing a Celtic knot.  This site contributed by Martha.

• Celtic cross-stitch...midway down is a link to generate your own pattern!

• History and symbolism of the Celtic cross...there are several nice pictures that will help you in your hands-on projects this week.

Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement

• Read about Roman battle tactics here. There are several pictures that will help you make your models.

• Find paper soldiers for many time periods.

• Coloring page of a Roman soldier

• See and hear "The Lord's Prayer" in Aramaic, the tongue of Jesus

• Make a paper nativity scene

Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church

• Click here for many pictures of Roman lamps

• Making plaster casts

• Ancient Roman clothing

• Roman mosaics

• Martha has created this great site for creating Roman mosaics.

• Kids Discovery has a great interactive site about Pompeii and volcanoes.

• Build a working volcano

• At this website, click on "A First Glance" and then use the arrows at the bottom of each page to see pictures of catacombs.  The text information on these pages is very interesting too.

Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church

• Instructions for making a model Roman chariot.  This may be best for your older students.

• Pictures of the Catacombs

Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies

• Timeline of the Roman Empire

Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

• Review Units 3 and 4.

• Complete all hands-on projects this week for your Unit Celebration.

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