So, in preparation of our vacation day we learned about and did some fun activities about these two great men.
Washington and Lincoln Books We Read
These are great biographies written for the 3-4 grade level.
Washington and Lincoln Portrait
When you were a kid did you put crayon shavings between two layers of wax paper and then melt them with an iron? I thought of this the other day and had an idea. I found an image of Lincoln and Washington online and printed them. We put one of the images under wax paper and drew the outline of the facial features. Then, we made shavings of crayons that were face color, black and greys. You can use a pencil sharpener. Just don't push too hard.
You will want to put a paper towel onto an iron safe surface and place your wax paper on top of the towel. Now, fill in the areas with crayon shavings. Just as Lucy is doing here.
This one is ready to be ironed. (On the first one, we put too much crayon so you may have to play with the amount of shavings.)
When you are done, place a piece of blank waxed paper on top and then another paper towel and iron with your iron on a low setting.
We did Lincoln and Washington. We ran out of white crayons from our Crayon Valentine Hearts so Washington has grey and black hair.
They didn't turn out exactly like I envisioned them but we had fun. Let me know if you make these and how they turn out.
Lincoln's House
We also made a small replica of Lincoln's first house out of "Wooden Skill Sticks". They are popsicle sticks that have notches on them. So you can build like you do with Lincoln Logs.
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| Lucy's House on left and Mommy's on right |
I decided to paint my house brown. So, after we constructed our houses Lucy wrote words on the sides of hers that described Lincoln.
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| Front: "Lincoln" |
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| Back |
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| Side: "ended slavery!!!!!" |
Happy Presidents' Day! and Thanks for reading and please leave a comment.
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