Kindergarten, History, Week 37

• Looked at pages 88 and 89 of Ancient World
• Made Roman Coins from Crafts from the Past: The Romans by Gillian Chapman
• Roll out a piece of modeling clay until it is smooth and flat, but it needs to be thick.
• Cut a strip of manila folder or card stock, about 1 inch wide; form it into a circle the size you want the coin(s) to be and staple it.
• Push the circle into the clay, keeping the circular shape.
• You can draw patterns or designs in the clay.
• For younger children, I found it better to take a small toy and press it part way into the clay, and then remove it, leaving the shape in the clay.
• Mix up plaster of paris. If found that two 6 oz yogurt containers of dry plaster and 1 container of cold water makes enough plaster for 7 coins of 2-inch diameter and 3/4-inch thick.
• Pour the plaster into your molds.
• Let them dry.
• Remove from molds.
• Paint your coins.
• Read Barbarians! by Steven Kroll
• The Goths
• The Huns