WARNING: This activity will take a good chunk of time to do.
I have an awesome sister who last Christmas gave us a set of History story books that her children read for school. She has been homeschooling her children for awhile now. At the time we were just going to read them as books, not knowing that in a few months time there would be a change of heart and homeschooling would become a way of life for us also.
Since we had the four volume set of
Story of the World we decided to use that for the bases of our homeschool History we started with volume 1: Ancient Times. We have learned about Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ancient India and Ancient Japan. We are now learning about Ancient Greece.
Today we read about Theseus and the Minotaur. We needed a hands on activity. A Labyrinth is a complex maze. So maze it is, not to hard though. Theseus was given some magic string to unwind as he went. This was used to find his way out, once he rescued the Athena teen sacrifices. Metallic Thread for us. (I printed a maze from online form this
site. I printed the Hard Difficulty Book 1 maze 8.)
First we drew the way in pencil.
Second glued maze to cereal box cardboard. and cut into a square frame.
Third I gave push pins and thick cardboard to Little Man and Young Lady. They poked holes at each intersection.
Forth threaded metallic thread into a sewing needle. tied the end leaving a longish tail we taped to the back. You may need multiple pieces depending how long of strands you use. Note: shorter lengths means less knotting of the thread while stitching.
Fifth Follow the path by using a back stitch (
use this link if you need to learn how to do a back stitch)
This takes a while like many many minutes. Patience my young learners.
Finally done YEAH!! Tie and ending knot and tape the end down to the back.
