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Your Kids Might Dig This, Too! | Archeology Digging Fun for Kids | Homeschooling

May 22, 2010 By Laura 2 Comments

If your kids love archeology, digging in the dirt, or finding treasured, they are really going to dig this!
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archeology for kids

My cousin and her daughter (my God daughter) came down a couple of months ago, for a girl’s overnight with myself and my own 2 girls, and so thoughtfully, she had brought some great gifts for the kids! It was so sweet.  It was unexpected and unnecessary, but I do love gifts that are both project-like, fun and educational.

archeology for kids

This is one of those gifts,…. which was for {JM}:  Dig & Play Treasure Island.

Some may not think of it as educational, initially, but many of us homeschoolers, tend to quickly identify the learning aspects that are truly in just about anything, and everything.

Dig and Play Treasure Island brings out the excavator in your child.  The kit contains a plaster block, which contains buried treasures and coins. Using the specially designed digging tool, they must dig at the plaster little by little, to find the treasures.

It takes hard work, determination and ambition, but is ultimately rewarding.  To me, this helps instill the life lessons, that nothing worth having, comes easy.  What’s more, {JM} spent hours having fun, was excited about what he had found, and inspired to keep going to see what else was still yet to be discovered.

By reading and following the directions (such a necessary skill in life), {JM} learned that wetting the plaster, would make the digging easier, because the plaster would soften. (Science).

Soon he could see the edge of something!  He dug more ambitiously around the treasure, so that he could get it out.

Gold and silver coin treasures were being exhumed all over the place.  Because the plaster digging was a dusty job, {JM} wore a face mask that Daddy had on hand.  But a bandana would do as well.

{JM} also learned that the more water he sprayed on the plaster, the easier the job got!

What’s this?  It looks like a treasure chest!  He wondered what was inside.

Wow!!  Look at the beautiful gems!  And a die?

Dig and Play Treasure Island, also comes with a game board. and game directions.   Game pieces are also exhumed while digging in the plaster block.

So once the digging is all done, the fun doesn’t end!
What a great gift idea, for your kids, or other kids in your life.

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6 Tiny Potted Plants

April 15, 2008 By Laura Leave a Comment

tiny potted plants

How cute are these tiny potted plants sitting on the window sill?  Something about little sights like this just stir me somewhere inside, and make me smile.

We got the kids this little kit, to plant some flowers in these little starter potted plants, which we will later transplant into our flower beds outdoors. (They just LOVE stuff like this. All projects, really.)

The first thing they needed to do was put the peat pellets in a bowl, and add one cup of water.  Then they had to wait FIVE MINUTES.  You know…..eternity, for a kid.  This photo below totally cracks me up, because of their expressions of waiting….and waiting….they look thrilled, don’t they?

waiting-for-soaking

Just staring at this bowl…..for FIVE MINUTES…..as they soil soaked up the water and expanded.  After about 2 minutes,  {S} couldn’t take it anymore, and went into the kitchen to stare at the set timer instead. : )  At least with the numbers counting down, he could see the end in sight.

tiny potted plants

FINALLY the timer went off, and it was time to mix it up good.  They all took turns getting the job done well.

kids potting plants

Then Daddy filled up the little pots to the top, while the kids chose the flower seeds of their choice, and counted out 10 seeds each.  {A} and {S} chose Delphinium (Pacific Giant), {O} and I chose Rudbeckia (Gloriosa Daisy), and { J } and Daddy chose Hollyhock (Alcea Rosea).  Then their little hands got to work, planting each seed about 1/4″ into the soil.

little hands potting plants

They were pretty happy with their little potted plants, and very excited to watch them grow.  We put our initials on them to know whose is whose, and of course, to see whose is growing the best.  Will some of us have a more skilled green thumb than others?  Or do some species grow faster or slower than others?  We’ll see!  And I’m sure we’ll keep you posted.

tiny potted plants

Unfortunately, they have to be kept in this little ‘greenhouse’ to grow.  So much for my happy little vision of them lined up on the window sill.  But I’m gettin’ over it.

tiny potted plants

Let the growing begin!

Filed Under: Elementary Homeschooling, Elementary Homeschooling SCIENCE, Homeschooling, Nature Study, Science Tagged With: dirt, elementary-homeschooling-science, flowers, kids-gardening, kids-growing-plants, kids-potting-plants, plants, seeds, soil, tiny-potted-plants

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