Africa

We're continuing on with world cultures and last week was Africa. We read books, learned about the landforms there, talked about African animals, food, and native hand crafts.

Here's some of the books we read....

We learned that in Africa, the women make beautiful baskets from many different things. One of those things is fabric.

So we made our own baskets, and here's how...
1. cover a bowl with plastic wrap. mix equal parts glue and water in another bowl. (next time, i would use deeper bowls as our mold.)

2. take small scraps of colorful fabric and dip in the glue. make sure it's really saturated, then use your fingers to push off the excess so it's not dripping.
place over the plastic wrapped bowl, overlapping each square so there's no gaps.

sophia loved this project! she was so into it!!
Here's the finished bowls....