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Colonial Wall

Filed under: Unit Studies, Homeschooling, History — Robin on April 29, 2008 @ 10:56 pm

Instead of displaying GB’s work from the Colonial Unit in a lapbook, we have been displaying it for friends and family on an empty wall near GB’s bedroom. It works out well because everybody has to go by the wall in order for me to cut their hair. Here is a picture of how it is looking:

colonial wall

From the top left side, going clockwise, we have the wampum necklace, then his rope bed and straw mattress. Then we have the woven blanket, his colonial cookbook, the box he stenciled, the ‘Bees’ fan, a sheet on colonial archaeological finds, the homemade candles, his pine needle sachet, pictures from the wattle and daub house, the tarred and feathered loyalist, things you’d find in a colonial barn, his colonial pop-up houses, John Smith’s life, crops from a plantation, a map of the thirteen colonies.

And in the center, at the bottom, you’ll see our latest addition to the wall; GB’s silouhette. I love this! When I was a kid my grandparents had some of these on display of my dad and his sister from when they were small. So I enjoyed making this one of GB. It brought back nice memories.

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  1. Love the wall! My in-laws have silouhettes of my husband and his sister on their wall, too. You did a great job! How did you do it? :-)

    Comment by Dana — May 1, 2008 @ 9:44 pm

  2. That is wonderful! What a great idea.

    Comment by tribeofautodidacts — May 2, 2008 @ 6:44 am

  3. well done a great wall display and a very interesting post with all the links

    Comment by jen — May 2, 2008 @ 6:20 pm

  4. Oh, this is absolutely a wonderful showcase of the work done! Thanks for the great inspiration!

    Juno

    Comment by Juno — May 4, 2008 @ 9:59 am

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