What Do You Want to Make Today?
I was cleaning up the girl’s room the other day and happened across this sheet from an atlas that I’d given her last year when we did her dragon egg hunt. She won’t miss it, so I decided to use it as a background for a project. You can paint on a map or draw […]
All this week I’ve been doing craft challenges that relate in some way to maps. This was in part inspired by a gift from my sister-in-law of several books related to map making as art. These books are a great jumping off point for talking about maps as art with kids and for creating some […]
How well do you remember the places you used to live? It turns out I don’t all that well. I can remember generally where different rooms were, but it turns out when I tried to draw the house I grew up in, I, for one, did a really bad job with the things I could […]
On my long list of creative ideas I came up with before this challenge started, there were several ideas that had to do with maps, so I decided to declare this map week. The first one is pretty simple, but also pretty fun: map your route to work or school or anywhere you go on […]
Learn how to decoupage a box with old maps to give it an instant antique look. When I made my DIY Dragon Eggs, the dragon had a box for the eggs to go in. This was a last-minute addition to the plan (which was all pretty last minute, since I started working on it the […]