Thursday, October 13, 2011

Remembering Christopher Columbus

We made a pretty neat craft today commemorating the voyages of Christopher Columbus.  We used a blue posterboard, drew the continents and colored them green, and made 3 ships that we could "sail" back and forth.  It was hands-on and a lot of fun.  It was on October 12th that his crew finally spotted land, thus us doing the project today instead of the observed holiday on Monday.   :-)











8 comments:

Aloha Acres said...

That's such a cool project!

Theresa said...

I like your new profile picture! I love your Christopher Columbus projects. I made boats from egg cartons at my library program (I am a children's librarian) and they did not come out nearly as cute as yours!

Unknown said...

What a great idea!!

Unknown said...

Lisa, what a cute project! The boats turned out great.

Lisa Boyle said...

Thanks! :-) I modified the idea a bit from what I found at Enchanted Learning, especially since I didn't have empty egg cartons. :-) I actually used plastic tops from water bottles and attached our cardstock boats to them. We put a dab of playdough in the bottle top so the toothpick from the sail could be put into it. Does that make sense? lol. It was as lot of fun!

Sarah Kay said...

Awesome project! :) It's a really good idea and I love the way the boats turned out!

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Lori said...

WoW! We just studied Columbus, we did a lot of projects BUT I Love this idea! Will have to copy. Thanks for stopping by Life with the Family o! I am looking forward to following your blog.

Unknown said...

How fun and great learning activity. Add some dashes or dots and a die and you can have a fun game exploring!