I love creative, constructive kids!

Today we made castles with towers, crenalations (sp?), walls, moats, and even a drawbridge (on Gabe's) and skeleton key (on Nathaniel's- his own idea and drawing, of course!) Their castles are so cute and really reflect their personalities. We've also been making woven placemats out of construction paper, a weaving loom out of cardboard and a yarn tapestry is in the works, an embroidered felt pocket, a viking longhouse, paper bag cottages, and candles. It has really been fun- and incredibly messy! Housework is really suffering around here as much as the budget ;P I promise to put up some pictures when we wrap up some loose ends on the projects. We'll be making a coat of arms, a compass, a sundial (if it's ever sunny), and medieval dolls and dollhouse this week. We're going to be learning about Marco Polo, Genghis and Kublai Khan, Tamerlane, the Mongols, China and Japan this week as well. We're supposed to be making medieval costumes and a salt dough map of Japan. I suspect the house will remain a mess. I'm learning that somethings are more important than others, and a clean countertop is not everything it's cracked up to be.
Why am I blogging so late you ask? I haven't figured that one out yet.