We recently studied about the Phoenecians. One of the things we really liked about these people was their love of the color purple. We love purple too. Unlike us, the Phoenecians couldn't just go to the store and pick out a purple shirt, hat, gloves, etc... They had to make their own purple dye from natural sources. So, we became like the Phoenecians and made our own purple dye too.
First, I cut up some purple cabbage and we let it simmer for about an hour.
Next, we drained the cabbage and, voila, we have beautiful purple dye for our "beads".
Then we added our beads (pasta) and let them soak in the dye until we were satisfied with their beautiful purple color.
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| Aren't they beautiful :) |
Finally, we strung our beads and made a necklace out of them. Faith was so excited about her creation that she ran and gave it to grandma before I could even get a picture...but you get the picture...
Have I mentioned how much I love learning with Faith? :)
This idea was taken from our wonderful history curriculum:
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