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DLTK's Educational Activities - Book Report Ideas
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Materials:
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The Steps We Took:
You could do this all in one day but we never procrastinate! It's much more fun (and less stressful) if you do a little each day for a week.
Day 1:
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Kaitlyn sketched out her ideas on a piece of paper
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Kaitlyn searched through the "craft cupboard" for what we had on hand and for inspiration.
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Kaitlyn made a list of materials she thought she would need - dividing her list into things we had and things we needed to buy.
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Mommy reviewed Kaitlyn's sketch and materials list.
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Kaitlyn painted the entire outside of the box red to look like a barn (we had the red acrylic paint on hand) after covering the table with newspaper.
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Kaitlyn washed her brushes and tidied the kitchen table -- acrylic paint dries in under an hour, so she was able to tidy up without setting anything aside to dry.
Day 2:
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Kaitlyn and mommy sat down at the computer for a lesson on Powerpoint.
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Mommy designed an entire "background" for the walls of the barn while Kaitlyn watched.
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Mommy deleted everything she'd done (to Kaitlyn's horror *grin*) and then Kaitlyn designed her own background for the walls of the barn while mommy watched.
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Kaitlyn printed her design (about 4 sheets), cut her sheets to fit the "walls" of her barn and glued them to the back and sides (inside).
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Kaitlyn chopped raffia into small bits (to look like straw) and glued this all over the floor of her box
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at this point we had run out of supplies we happened to have lying around the house so we made a trip to our local craft store to pick up sculpey clay, plasticine, wooden sticks and corrugated cardboard
Day 3:
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Day 4:
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after a lot of trial and error -- mom, dad, grandpa and Kaitlyn managed to build a fence for Wilbur
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Clumps of plasticine were hotglued to the bottom of the shoebox floor
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Kaitlyn pushed her fence sticks into the plasticine to act as fence posts
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The fence cross pieces were hot glued to the fence posts -- everyone got a bit burned during the process (make sure you use a low-temp crafting hot glue gun not a carpentry one so that no one gets seriously injured)
Day 5:
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Kaitlyn and daddy made the stool:
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Daddy sawed two corks in half -- to make four corks half as tall
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Kaitlyn glued a square of cardboard to the four half corks
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Kaitlyn used a very creative swirly painting technique (with red and brown acrylic paint) to decorate her stool
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Day 6:
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Day 7:
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