Salt dough art project

For one of my art projects that I am doing, I  made salt dough hand print ornaments of my children. I let my 4 year old daughter help me make the dough, and she loved it. Then I put her hand print on one, and my 18 month sons hand print on one.  I put a hole at the top to put a ribbon through it, so you can hang them up. I painted my sons red and my daughters purple, because that's her favorite color. I'm going to write their names on them and put the year.

If I was to do this in the classroom it would be for a younger grade, like kindergarten. I would let the help me make the dough, and decorate it anyway that they want too. I would have them paint their own name on it, for handwriting, and put the date on it. Then that parents would have a keepsake.


Here is a picture of my first coat of paint and no writing yet.

Trade Fair

This week we had a trade fair in our Social Studies class. I had no idea what to bring. Sydney said to bring baked goods, clothes that we are planning on giving away, or just anything that we have around the house. I didn't have anything around the house. I was going to bake brownies, but I never made it to the store to get the brownie ingredients. So when I stopped and got my coffee in the morning I just bought some red velvet cookies. In class we then traded out items for other items. I ended up with some shot glasses for my husbands shot glass collection.

I think that this would be a really good project to do in my elementary classroom. We would be studying the history of trading, money, and supply and demand. It would be a in dept project, and I would give my students and their parents plenty of time to come up with an item for the trade fair. Also for the few students who may not be able to bring anything in, I would have baked goods for them to trade with. I believe that this would be a really fun way to get my students actually involved in my class and in social studies. I think that they would have a lot of fun with this project.