A Car Boot Sale Education

Who says home education needs to be expensive?



At this morning's boot sale we picked up a vintage weaving loom, two primary science books, three books interviewing children's authors (Telling Tales series) a set of Oxford Learning Tree readers, a workbook on telling the time, a book of scary stories and Star Wars Monopoly.  OK, not sure of the educational value of the Monopoly but all the same :-)

So what have we been up to the last couple of weeks..?

More on the Aztecs as part of Gman's Mexico lapbook project.  The boys are quite taken with the somewhat gory nature of this particular period of ancient history.  I think it's the live human sacrifices that do it!  Gman patiently stuck down loads of little gummed squares to make this two headed-serpent (Waif started out helping but got fed up with the bits sticking to him so wandered off to do something else):



As you can see, Gman was rather pleased with the finished result!

Waif has been continuing making some more "quilt" patterns and has even had a go at a liberated house (see my sewing blog for what this means!)



We have also been to see a small but very lovely textile art exhibition at the Babylon Gallery in Ely.  While Gman was totally entranced by a piece entitled "The Power of Money" which comprised a kind of waterfall of £10 & £20 notes embroidered in between sheets of sheer material, Waif was more interested in having a go at the hands-on textile art activity, with a little help from Nana.  They had a table laid out with fabric, ribbons, buttons, beads, and various yummy trims for participants to make fabric flower corsages to go on a "tree" inside the gallery.  Waif hung his first flower up there, but was so taken with his second that he went home with it sewn to his jumper!

Continuing on an artistic theme, Gman has been designing a poster for his latest story, borrowing somewhat from all the sci-fi we have been watching and reading lately!