For the story board, we got a book on Greek architecture at Half Price book with a coupon and cut that up.

For Solomon's temple we reused as much as we could of the tabernacle.  We repainted the base white.  We were able to reuse much of the furniture.  We used cardboard to make the temple.  DS made new structures out of clay, baked and painted them.  This project was far more intricate and complicated than the tabernacle, so it was difficult to do.  We could really appreciate the real craftsmanship that really went into the real temple.  We also saw that the basic elements of entering God's presence remained the same.

 We made friezes were made out of wallboard.  The dc peeled off paper on the side they were going to work on.  Then they had to keep it wet with a spray bottle and scraped in their design.  After they decided it was done, they painted it with a watered down glue solution to keep the dust from flying. Here is dd's butterfly and flowers.

Here is ds' under the sea.

When we studied Esther, we read the book out loud as a family as the Jews do on the Feast of Purim.  The dc made these shakers which they gave to dh.  I read the story aloud.  DD represented Esther and DS represented Mordecai with these masks.  Everytime I read about them, they stepped out onto the "stage" and pantomimed the actions I was reading about.  Whenever I read about Haman, dh shook the shakers and yelled, "boo!!! hiss!!!"  We did not do this for the unit celebration, but we did do it one week when we were studying the Persians.  However we told our guests all about it.

DD made an oil lamp out of clay that was baked and painted. She also wrote some Hebrew letters on a pottery shard, as the Hebrews might have done.

DD also made a ring with a seal like King Xerxes had.  The she sealed this letter with it.  We had Grandma break the seal, open it and read the message inside. 

 We studied many of the Greek scientific and mathematical discoveries.  So ds made models of these for his science lessons, since he was reading about them in his history time.  (Don't you love when these things overlap?)   He made this solar system from a kit. The balls of styrofoam needed to be painted then strung with string.  He hung it from a dowel rod and we set that on top of our fireplace tool holder.  The fireplace makes a great backdrop!

This Greek vase was made from an extra vase I had (one of the cheap ones).  He paper mached that, then formed the handles.  When it dried he painted it to look like a Greek vase.  He also made some 3D shapes (turquoise) bottom right corner.  DD did some string art (bottom left corner) using some of the geometric shapes the Greeks played with.