Crafts and Classical Education are not exactly synonomous to most people. When you think of Classical Education you think of Latin, Greek and the Great Books. There isn't much room for crafts with those subjects. I have to admit that I thought long and hard about how I was going to incorporate crafts into this week's blog, but I have been able to pull it off.
The craft that I am going to share with you is more for the quadrivium. This craft uses geometrical skills that your elementary school aged child can show off. The official title of this craft is Dangling Bread Shapes. Doesn't sound very classical, does it? Bear with me. I found this idea in an Usborne book. Here are the steps:
1) Press a cookie cutter (can be of any shape--circle, star, flower shape, hexagon, etc.) into a slice of bread.
2) Press the end of a straw into each shape to make a hole so you can hang up the shapes.
3) Leave the shapes out overnight so they will dry out.
4) Mix some white paint with white glue. Paint the edge of the shape as well as both sides.
5) When the paint is dry use a pencil to draw on simple geometric patterns.
6) Fill in the patterns with different colors of acrylic paint. Paint the edges as well.
7) Tie a piece of thread through the hole at the top to hang. You can also tie different shapes together to make a mobile.
There you have it! A Classical craft! 
Julia lives on the Canadian Prairies with her husband, homeschooling her 3 children and attempting to give them a Classical Education. You can read more at her blog.
