Trojan Horse

We have been exploring the ancient world for the past couple of weeks at work and I just wanted to share this activity with you. It is not mine but I think i is an excellent activity. 


For the template and instructions click here


Here is a picture of some we did:

When we did it we just glued coloured card on the back, it might be  good idea to use thick cardboard for the wheels or it just continually falls over.

Discus

Getting ready for the Olympics while still exploring Ancient Greece got us onto making discuses. This was actually a child's idea which caught on and nearly everybody at the program ended up making one. Lots of fun except when they hit you in the head! It is a very simple yet effective idea.


Materials

• Paper Plates
• Sticky Tape
• Markers

Method

1. On the underside of the plate (the side that would be resting on the table if you were eating from it) draw your design. this could be anything really. Most of the kids at my program wanted to do something that would look good while spinning in the air. This meant lots of colour wheels.
2. Stick the two plates together to make a UFO shape. 
3. You are finished. Go outside and throw it around. You can have different challenges such as the furthest throw, the highest throw you can have a relay race with them or a continuous circle where everybody throws to the left on the count of three.

Ornamental Plates

We have been exploring the ancient world at the moment and we did ornamental plates in a Greek theme. It also enhances the idea if you couple this with some Greek myth story telling or some of Aesop's fables.


Materials

• Paper Plates
• Markers
• Scissors
• Glue
• Colour Pencils
• Greek Printouts

Method

1.  For the pictures in the ornamental plates I found a site that has nice cartoon pictures of Ancient Greece. 
2. Making sure that you size them appropriately print them out.
3. You can either print them in colour or in black and white. We printed in black and white and coloured over them.
4. Decorate the border of the plate.

Theseus and the Minotaur

Apollo