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In trying to plan (and budget) my first attempts at Moira Farrel's album, I have been looking over the supplies. Land and water globes are not cheap, and I was looking for ways to make your own.
Has anyone tried this? It is a printout for tudor style globe/map that you can cut out and tape into a sphere. The pdf is grayscale and looks as if it would be easy to paint over.
Even if it wouldn't work for a land and water globe (which I was even thinking that modge podge and cardboard or some kind of ball would make it more finished looking), it would be a cool geography lesson! My 3 year old isn't quite there yet, but I think I'll try it...
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Hey cool... I've been wondering what to do for a globe for Moira's presentations as well. It's definitely worth a try -- and as you say, you can't lose -- you got a geography lesson in the process!
We have a lot of worn out balls -- I was thinking about painting one of them? Not sure that would work, though.
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I was actually thinking of having ds do a paper mache one using an old kick ball as a form. A balloon would work for that as well. You can also just cover a ball with masking tape and paint over that.
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If you have a Target nearby, you may want to check them out. I picked up a small globe in the $ Spot a couple of weeks ago and made a land and water globe out of it. I was happy with the way it turned out and my dh was very happy with the price. 
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Yes yes yes. Do the target thing. Mix sand in brown paint and paint the land all brown. Then paint the water all blue. Cover with acrylic clear spray coating to keep your paint from picking off. You can also make a continent glob the same way. No sand in that one, just different colors for each continent. I will post pictures on my blog today so you can see the ones I have made...if that helps.
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I didn't use the small globes from Target, but was able to find a used regular-sized globe at Salvation Army for ~$1. Painting was time-consuming, but a nice activity (dare I say it helpled normalize me???). And the finished product is pretty decent. The greatest part is that all my kids, from 3-13, LOVE the globe! I understand that the Montessori globes are smaller in design, apparently so little hands can manipulate them. My little ones don't seem to mind the large globe, though.
Like Theresa, though, I'm thinking of having the older kids do a papier mache one. We'll be delving into geography studies a la Montessori as a family later this week, and this seems like a project the older kids might enjoy working on together.
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My Target didn't have a globe at all. I looked 
Not to mention Dh has a fit about the idea of a globe... somewhere in his head it looks bad.
The ONLY globe he likes the look of was a $600 one that lit up... I don't think I can talk him into that one
He might go for the inflatable type, but I still like the idea of papier mache so the kids could LEARN as we make one
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~Rachel~ wrote:
Not to mention Dh has a fit about the idea of a globe... somewhere in his head it looks bad.
The ONLY globe he likes the look of was a $600 one that lit up... I don't think I can talk him into that one |
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Sounds a bit like my dh. I keep trying to buy a globe and his ideal one is the kind like libraries have, encased in wood, very large size.
And now I'm chuckling to myself because I've been reading this thread thinking "I'll never get to Target" and suddenly I remembered ds went to Target when in Altoona with his cousins and they brought home a globe for him from the $1.
I only now put together that this is the same globe you are referring to. My, it is teeny-tiny.
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Yep! it is teeny tiny...and for some odd reason, the kids love it. I did the sand and water globe, the land and water globe and the continents globe...and I have a fourth that I left plain for comparison. I am sooo glad I got the teeny tiny bristle brush for this work!! I remember being told that it wasn't being exact that was the big deal on this project...it is the overall impression that is the big deal.
You could always try this for a DIY globe...Enchanted Learning Never underestimate the potential of Enchanted Learning...
This was the plan for last year. I am tweaking that a bit as we did not get to everything...but hey! I am fle ible ...(yeah Theresa I STILL have to get THAT key out of the vacuum...)
ANYWAY...the children like to use our boring regular globe to compare to the mommy-made ones and compare that to the floor puzzle of the world and they compare that to the wall map...and then to have them make their own is very rewarding for them. You learn a great deal by doing!
Gotta blog about what I am doing...I am going so fast these days the days are F L Y I N G by...
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~Rachel~ wrote:
He might go for the inflatable type, but I still like the idea of papier mache so the kids could LEARN as we make one
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I thought the National Maritime Museum link I posted above was a good learning activity. Paper mache sounds so fun, but I thought it was cool how the NMM project showed why flat maps are distorted and how map makers used to have to paint a map (in segments) to turn it into a globe.
I guess one could crazy creative and use the above pattern like a sewing one and sew the globe and stuff it. Not sure how perfectly round that would be
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Well I saw a paper one in the Neinhuis catalogue that you cut out and glued into a globe
Dh didn't say anything when I showed him...
Anyway... since the world is not completely round... I dont think it matters that a sewn one would be lumpy (you can always move the stuffing around to try and create mountains... )
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OK I have now found the ULTIMATE in 'make your own globe' and it is VERY Montessori like!
Even though it is a big sacrifice as this site is one of my links on the toymaking fair , I thought I just HAD to share
Make your own globe
ENJOY!
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We have done that one before and it turned out great, but let me warn you. It is TEDIOUS! Ds (age 10 at the time) got tired of all of the cutting of tiny little slits after awhile and I had to finish it off for him. Plus it is difficult to get it to fit together properly. I would not recommend it for under age 12 or so. But, like I said, it did look really cool when done.
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Actually my thought was to do all the cutting myself . My DS loves model making though, so that is in my favour
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