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Craft Projects
By Lori 2

The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco could be used to do a quilt project. If you have fabric scraps let the children design their own square out of the fabric. You can easily tie this in with math. If you don't have fabric
see if a wallpaper store will give you one of their old wall paper books. Another idea is to use wrapping papers. Other quilt stories can be used as well -- The Patchwork Quilt, The Rag Coat, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (could also be used to bring in mapping by making a map quilt)
You can do glyphs with just about any book, but I love to use Wilma Unlimited. Take a running

shoe clip art and make it fit a regular sheet of paper. Then draw quarter size circles on colored paper to represent the illnesses Wilma had as a child, the state of TN to represent her state of birth, calendar clip art for birth and death dates, heart for what she wanted most in 1960, children or family cut out to represent family birth order (20 of 22 children), baby scales for weight (4 1/2 pounds at birth), etc. Glue these to the running shoe. Then have the children complete a questionaire answering the same questions (except death date) for homework and they make a running shoe glyph of their data. You can hang the shoes up around the room and use the data for real life graphing. You can compare birth weights with bags of rice on a scale -- largest and smallest baby -- graph the childhood diseases of the class, states of birth, month with the most birthdays, etc.

Postcards from Pluto -- read the neat postcards and then have the children create their own planet and write a postcard from the planet complete with picture on the front.

Insects are my Life -- I usually do this in the summer with my summer camps -- make bug boxes.

Roxaboxen -- create your own make believe town

Annie and the Old One -- weave your own placemat

Hope that helps,
Lori