The history book we are using with the kids right now is called Americans Kids in History: Colonial Days. In the book we follow a fictional family that would be typical of that time. The book is filled with not only facts about life back then, but also packed full of hands on activities for the kids (and adults) to do. This week we made candles.
We ate dinner tonight by the light of the candles! And talked about what it would be like back then with no electricity and light from only candles or oil. |
We used beeswax and colored it with a few broken crayons. |
Aaron and I really enjoyed making the candles and both would like to get a candle mold and make the candles we use. This was a fun project and we can not wait until next weeks history lesson!
Looks like fun!! We'll have to give that a shot when we get to colonial times. We're still stuck back in the middle ages! LOL (Which had candles too, I suppose!)
ReplyDeleteIt was a lot of fun. Have fun being "stuck" way back then! :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your blog, making candles is a lot of fun. I help everyone can do this.
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