Category: Greece

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This week we are visiting Greece!

Here is our ‘This week we are visiting Greece’ sign. We stick ours up in the kitchen/dining room (where we do most of our playing!) so that the boys can keep looking at it...

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Greek flags!

We made some flags as part of our ‘Greece week’. We made one flag out of card, craft sticks, glue and paint. I made one first, and then drew out the design for my...

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A maze for a Minotaur!

We had a look in the local library for any books relating to Greece when it was our ‘Greece week’, and managed to find ‘A-maze-ing Minotaur’. My pre-schooler loved this book, and we had...

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Medusa heads from egg shells!

My pre-schooler has become fascinated by Greek myths since we started reading Greek myths for young children – see my post on books for Greece week. So I came up with several activities relating...

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Original Olympic Games!

One of the first things I thought of when thinking of activities for a week ‘visiting’ Greece was the Olympic Games. I wanted to introduce the boys to the idea of what they are,...

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Koulourakia – Greek butter biscuits!

The cooking or baking element of our week’s activities is always a highlight for the boys. They love to mix and stir, eat the ingredients as we are going along, get sticky fingers and...

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Edible paint!

Kids love painting, and (at least mine) love sugar! So combine the two, and it’s a winning combination. We made some edible paint, and used it to paint the Olympic rings onto some bread...

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Pegasus paper airplane!

My 4yo’s favourite Greek myth is about Pegasus, the flying horse – see my post on books for Greece week. He also likes creating things with his hands. So I decided to teach him...

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Books for Greece week

We couldn’t ‘visit’ Greece without reading ‘Let’s visit Athens’ from the Bella and Harry series – see my post Bella and Harry adventure series on why we love these books! My eldest loved reading...

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Fuse beads for Greece week!

For our ‘Greece week’, we made a Medusa and a Minotaur out of fuse beads. Older children could copy this design for themselves, but our preschooler needed some help. We thought these were a...