Continent box North-America

Hi there,

Taking you to North Amerika, USA today. I've been there a few times my self, three times actually.
I like the USA its has so much veriaty in only one country and it as a very old and rather new history mixed up with many cultures from all over the world.

Here a few pictures of my USA items:

I made a memory game with different native American pictures.

After a holiday in 2000 I made this dreamcatcher.

 

 some pictures of the animals you can find in the USA and the fruit and musical instruments are from the whole North-America continent.

 

And here some stemps and coins from the USA.

Books: Klappie

Klappie Tsau lives in a slum in South Africa. He thinks he is different form the other kids because he is part of the San-clan. He lives in a Township in South-Africa and he doesn't feels safe and want to run away.
When a gang attaches his village he runs in to the desert, alone.

He dreams of a life as a genuine San-warrior and goes on a day trip to join this very special people.

For all the Dutch readers of my blog: here a link to my children's book blog: http://www.mattysleukstekinderboek.blogspot.nl/2014/03/klappie-ashwin-moyene.html

DIY: making your own Pan Flute

Today we're going to make a musical instrument, the pan flute. Let's find out what a pan flute is.

 

The pan flute or pan pipe is an ancient musical instrument based on a principle of the closed tube, consisting usually of five or more pipes of gradually increasing length (and at times, girth).

 

The pan flute has long been popular as a folk intrument in Peru and Bolivia, and is considered the first mouth organ, ancestor of both the pipe organ ant the harmonica. The pan flute is named for its association with the Greek god Pan. The pipes of the pan flute are typically made for bamboo or giant cane; other materials used include wood, plastic metal and ivory.

So now we can start.

Let's first see what we need:

- scissors

- gluw

- straws

- two pieces of cardboard

- paint or something else to color it.

When you have gathered all these things, let's get started.

Cut the cardboard in two pieces each 1 inch by 3 inches, but really the exact sice doesn't really matter.
Put glew on one piece of the cardboard and stick the straws to it.

Now put gluw on the second piece of cardboard and place it on top of the straws like you see in the picture above.

Now you have to wait a little till the gluw is dried up

When the gluw is dries up you need your scissors. Depending on how much straws you used you cut the right nummer short. I used 18 so devided them in groups of three

Now all you have to do is decorate the cardboard and ready you are

Have much fun making your own pan flute!

Fruit: Pomegranate

So, in the next 10 weeks I will be eating a new piece of fruit. I will choose fruit that is exotic in The Netherlands and that I have never eaten.

 

Today I'll tell you about the pomegranate. Pomegranates are origianlly from Iran (Persia). Now a days it's widely cultivated throughout the Mediteranean eara (Southern Europe, Northern Africa, Middle East) and further.

 

Last week when shopping groseries I walked through the fruit and vegetables corner and noticed there was only one pomegranate left. It wasn't to expencive so I placed it in my shopping basket.

I had pomegranate once before, on a holiday in Egypt. I liked the sour taste and the little bite because of the seed in it.

 



Arriving home I settled down at my table to find out how to 'open' the pomegranate. Using a small sharp knife I cut out a quarter, but only cutting through the 'skin'. Then I pulled the piece open.
I pealed the seeds out and so I peeled the whole pomegranate.

Tasting the seeds they seemed less sour than they were in my memories. I was wondering how to eat them and looked for some recipies. I found one with couscous and decited to make couscous for dinner later that day. Till then I put the seeds in the fridge.

When eating the seeds with the couscous the seeds tasted like i remembered, sweet but sour and I liked it.

 

What do you like about the pomegranate? Tell me.

Continent box Africa #1

Hi everybody,

Today we're going to travel to the continent of Africa. It's a really big continent with 54 countries. So there are lots of things to explore and discover about Africa.

Today we're going to Egypt!
In 2012 I went to Egypt for a holiday with my parents. We made a Nile Cruise for a week and we've seen the many wonders of Egypt (exept for the piramids)
I've you've been there you probably agree with me about the beauty and historical feeling the country gives. I've visited many old (very old) buildings in Europe, but walking through the Egyptian Temples really made me feel I traveled back in time.

Egypt has a very long and rich history so there are many items to find to represent Egypt. Here are the once I have collected so far:

Making your own World Map

A while ago when starting to collect for my continent boxes I came along a site where you can print your own maps, big ones.

You choose a continent or the whole world and you choose how big. One page or 3x3 pages to 8x8 pages big.

 

This is the site:

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/megamaps/print-world-maps.html

 

I printed a 5x5 map of the world.

Now I started coloring it. It will probably take quite some time.