Here's a Fourth of July sneak peek at some of the wonderful projects within RTR. I hope you enjoy thinking about them and looking forward to them as much as I enjoyed writing them! We'll be doing them this upcoming year with my second little guy as he journeys through RTR. I know that it adds so many connections to our study of history as we complement the study with projects spread out over three days each week, done in bite-sized pieces with supplies you truly will have on hand.
We simply don't write projects that utilize strange supplies, or they wouldn't get done at our house! So, rest assured that the list that follows will be manageable and enjoyable and work with our open-and-go format. I think you'll be amazed by year-end at how much your kiddos have accomplished and what fun they have had. Here's a partial peek at what's ahead: making a Roman arch out of air-dry clay, creating a mosaic-like glue and chalk stained-glass window, writing in Greek on parchment, playing a game called 'Race to Rome', baking bread with Scripture verses inside, designing a Roman shield, playing a card game called 'Lord of the Castle', baking marzipan cookies and sharing portions of "The Cid", going on a Crusade with clue cards, making an origami turban and model of Saladin, cooking homemade egg noodles, rolling the die to show the spread of the Black Plague, making a medieval pennant, coloring your own Fra Angelico painting, making hardtack, painting an African mud cloth, sketching and painting an image from the Sistine Chapel, forming a 3-D map of Magellan's voyage, designing a Spanish "Pieces of Eight" coin, creating illuminated letters/borders/entries for a Book of Hours, making a window cling of a Huguenot cross, mapping the path of the Spanish Armada, baking your choice of baked pears/seedcakes/or Yorkshire Pudding from the time of Shakespeare, using oil pastels to create the Great Barrier Reef, forming an Iroquois gourd rattle, practicing sketching like Rembrandt, creating a flapbook of important Scriptures to help in leading someone to Christ through the Word, making a Lenape Native American bandolier bag, and baking your choice of Amish sugar cookies or Russian tea cakes.
I can't wait for each of you will be using RTR to get underway! Although, I wouldn't mind a bit of summer myself first.
We're still hard at work finishing and editing the guide. We are so thankful and grateful for any of you who choose to lift us up in prayer as we write! Happy Fourth of July! Blessings,
Carrie
It all sounds wonderful! While I can tell you it will be baked pears over Yorkshire pudding. I can also tell you it will be Amish sugar cookies AND Russian tea cakes.