This week we are visiting Italy!
Here is our ‘This week we are visiting Italy’ 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...
Here is our ‘This week we are visiting Italy’ 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...
We made some flags as part of our ‘Italy week’. We made one flag out of card, craft sticks, glue and paint. I made one first, and then drew out the stripes for my...
As part of ‘Italy week’, I set up the Sistine Chapel and let my 4yo pretend to be Michelangelo for the morning (we included the Vatican City in our Italy week). He loved the...
We made a Roman aqueduct (adapted from this idea) as part of ‘Italy week’. For this we used a wrapping paper tube, cut in half and covered in foil and some mega bloks built...
I came across this fantastic science experiment from Kidzworld to make your own ice cream. It looked too good to be true, so I thought we should try it for ourselves. After one false...
Italy week would definitely not be complete without making our own pizza. I decided that in order for it to count, we had to make it all from scratch. I found this pizza recipe...
My preschooler absolutely loves the Bella and Harry book ‘Let’s visit Venice’ that we’ve been reading for ‘Italy week’ (see my post on books for Italy week). He thought the masks they used for...
As part of ‘Italy week’, we decided to make a Roman Centurion’s helmet for my preschooler to wear. For this craft, I simply cut out the shapes you can see in the left hand...
Just like for Egypt week (see post), I ordered a tube of Ancient Roman people and buildings and set to making a sensory excavation activity. We did the rice excavation, as per Egypt...
We are lucky this week, there are three Bella and Harry books for Italy – Let’s visit Florence, Let’s visit Venice and Let’s visit Rome. We haven’t read the Let’s visit Florence book yet,...
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