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We just made our first salt dough map. It was a little challenging for me! The children enjoyed making the salt dough and playing with it before we embarked on cartography. I used a relief map of Israel from Wikipedia for us to refer to as we shaped it. One hint to anyone who plans to do this – don’t completely carve out the lakes, seas, etc. After we finished and set it aside, I looked ahead to the next map lesson in Joshua to Malachi, and we are supposed to paint the lakes and water next week! So, I quickly went back and added in enough dough to those low areas so there would be something to paint! Ok. Just wanted to share. My children enjoyed the whole episode!
I guess I have to make sure to do this. About how big is the finished project? We don’t have a lot of space to leave things to dry.
4myboys,
You can make it whatever size you like. The SCM guide reccomends requesting a new pizza box from a pizzeria. That is what I did. Our waiter brought us a small pizza box, so that is what we are using. While I had thought I’d prefer the large size, I think the smaller one will be easier to store. This activity was our geography and art for the day.
We made a salt dough map of Egypt last year. It was a lot of fun for me and my boys. They were ages 7, 11 and 12 at the time. By the way, I called our local Dominos pizza and they gave us three large pizza boxes for free. The manager said she loves to support local homeschooling families. I thought that was so cool.
Tammy
I just cheated and we made sugar cookies in the shape of the countries and added the geography parts – a picture, a snack, and no storage. lol
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