silhouette cameo

MONARCH BUTTERFLY PAPER PROJECT

Posted on May 10, 2018May 11, 2018 by Hana

These monarch butterflies look so real, from a distance, you would think they were. We didn’t intend to make so many. We just needed a few for a Life Cycle of a Butterfly project, but we (er, I ... Read More

Solar System Fold-Out Book

Posted on September 21, 2015September 23, 2015 by Hana

For our astronomy unit, we made these fold-out solar system books using two 10″x30″ strips of light-weight watercolor paper cut from a large sheet. We adhered them together to make a fold-... Read More

Tutorial: Making Roman Maps with Watercolor Pencils

Posted on September 21, 2015September 25, 2015 by Hana

Today we continued our map making project using the stencil we cut using our Silhouette Cameo. My 8th grader traced the map and filled it in with Koh-i-Noor watercolor pencils available from Dick Blic... Read More

DIY: Making Maps with Distress Inks

Posted on September 21, 2015September 25, 2015 by Hana

We begin all our history unit studies with a map of the region we are learning about. For our Ancient Roman unit, we used a map from the workbook “Greek & Roman Mythology”, scanned it ... Read More