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We are in the middle of studying ancient Rome and I thought I might like to do some fun hands on activities- usually I am a books only type, but thought my kids would like the change 
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6 years ago my kids made togas out of scrap fabric (muslin, i think) lying around. they also made latin signs -- though i forget now exactly what they said... i've got pics somewhere... we're on Rome again, finishing up in a couple of weeks, i'll post again if i think of anything else... - this is stefoodie, didn't realize dd was logged in and don't have time to change now.
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You can create easy mosaics by cutting up endless squares of construction paper in different colors, then pasting them to a background page. (You can make tile ones, too, with stuff from a craft store, but this is less expensive.)
I have a bunch of stuff lying around...I'll see what I can find for you!
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Hi Kristie,
We did a Rome study with our co-op a while back. Here is a short post I did about it: Rome wasn't Built in a Day
We're doing Ancient History this year as a family, so we'll be revisiting Rome before too long.
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Thanks for the great ideas. Dawn, I will look at your post when I get a chance today!
I had forgotten about mosaics- we had done them with paper last time and loved it. My dc are older now so we may be able to do it with the chipped stuff I have been saving.
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The History Links volume "Ancient Rome" has more activities than you could EVER begin to accomplish---lots of good ideas (no, I'm not on commission  )
A few of the things we did includled: peparing a Roman feast-kids had to research Roman food and foodways and prepare an "authentic" feast. I always remember that refreshing Roman Honey Water!
Learned the three types of columns, sketched them, and went on an architectural scavenger hunt thru town, looking for examples of each style. We STILL do this. LOL
Read aloud "City of the Golden House"---very, very good. I believe the author is Joanne Williamson (I *think*) about the period when Paul was in Rome.
Drew slips of paper with names of famous Romans-writers, philosophers, etc---and did posters about them which we put up around the house.
As we did our unit study, we made up quiz cards on people and places we studied, and at the end of our the year, invited the relatives over, dressed everyone in Roman attire, ate MORE Roman food and played Roman Jeopardy. We also put out examples of our work and projects so our family and friends could see what we mysterious homeschoolers DO all day long.
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I notice in the archives that you are very passionate about History Links  I had a look at their sample pages, it seems that they give ideas but not really step by step instructions, am I reading this wrong?
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Ds (age 10 or 11 at the time) read "City" and "Rome Antics," built a model of an aqueduct, made a mosaic out of dyed eggshells (turned out very cool) did a diorama of a Roman army encampment, and built a model showing layers of a Roman road, to name a few.
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Erin wrote:
| I had a look at their sample pages, it seems that they give ideas but not really step by step instructions, am I reading this wrong? |
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Yes, that is correct - it is a compilation of many different ideas grouped by subject, but it doesn't have step by step in general. If someone is looking for it all laid out step by step they would probably not find this what they were seeking. I tend to work this way - just need the idea and will go with it. So it suits us.
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Thanks for helping me out on that, Mary---and yes, I second everything Mary says---HL is very good about inspiring you with ideas, but you tend to have to take it from there. However, a lot of their ideas are pretty nuts-n-bolts, don't need much in the way of explanation...along the lines of "use blocks to build the coliseum" (this was an activity we did-very fun).
Even tho I'm a cheer-leader for History Links, I've never JUST used it, I've always brought in other resources. But HL is very useful because it has so many neat ideas and projects to offer (sometimes too many, you have to be careful you don't burn out on it) and it's Catholic. And I *AM* especially bullish on its first volume, the History-general studies tome, which talks about HOW to study history. I really, really like their approach.
Kelly in FL
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