Our homeschool group's history/geography fair was this week
which triggered a pinning blitz for me on pinterest. That netted
some great ideas which tied in perfectly with the littles'
geography studies. The first was our take on the Me on the Map
project I saw several places. (based on this book) The children
cut their own circles from old cereal boxes so they are a little
wonky but really sturdy. They are going to make awesome
manipulatives for some time. Konos has a similar project but
they used envelopes in graduated sizes which fit inside one
another. A flip book works too. Any way you choose to do it you
begin with a picture of the child and his home then add layers
(pages, larger envelopes etc) of the following: his street,
city, state/province, country, continent, world. Then because I
tend to overshoot they were so darn cute we made a set of
continent cookies. Actually this project was spearheaded by
Moira and Aidan and was their contribution to the fair. The
hardest part (I mean of course the hardest