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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
It’s Iron Craft time again, and this week we were asked to do something with the letter D. I’m cheating just a little bit because I already had this made but hadn’t yet blogged about it, but it’s the best I can do this week. You may have noticed in …
