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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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