Salt Maps

       We had a great time mixing, creating, and painting the salt maps!   The girls helped mix and played with the dough.  I couldn't take many pictures of mixing and stirring due to keeping Aryee on task so that she didn't add more ingredients when I wasn't looking!  AND I don't even want to talk about the mess we had to clean up under her chair specifically.  Let's just say the vacuum is not enough to get dough out of rugs-- you have to hand pick it out!
        So we mixed and created on one day giving them time to dry.  Then it was time to paint!  Again the girls joined in to paint on their own papers.  I must admit they kept it on the paper and did a great job!

  


Quint's Map and Labels

               JD's Map and Labels







    The maps didn't have to be of Egypt.  They could have been of an imaginary land.  It's really a project to  introduce them to the vocabulary of maps.  So, they labeled their maps with their own words without talking to each other -- the Nile River seems to have made an impression because it showed up in both maps.