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Watch them create!

I have a whole bunch of old crafts from different activities.  I took the instructions out and handed them the packets and said, "Figure out how to put your craft together and write me the directions.  Then, glue it together.

It turned out to be an absolute riot.  I got some of the weirdest crafts I have even seen.  Kids kept telling me they were missing pieces but what they were missing wasn't part of the craft.  One darling said he had two crafts and he didn't.  He created a whole new craft!  So, cute.

Now, the kids are arguing how they should be put together and how the directions should read.  Odd, that one because they all have different crafts.

I am making some sudoku grids for the kids now and I wonder how that will go?

Published Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:07 AM by MysteryTeacher

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Betty said:

What a great idea.  My grandsons and I put together those lego sets with about 500 pieces.  Of couse, they fall apart, and sometimes we put them together again without reading the instructions.  Sometimes they look pretty funny.  I have another comment about directions.  How come some games for kids have the most complicated and confusing directions known to mankind?  Just wondering.

May 15, 2008 5:02 PM
 

Betty's Blog said:

As an almost professional Lego set "putter together", I can tell you that the process of assembling

May 20, 2008 9:45 AM

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About MysteryTeacher

I am 53 years old and have been teaching for 20 years this year. I have two daughters and two grandaughters and two son-in-laws, all of whom I adore. I love to travel with friends but I am now saving for retirement in about 14 years. I am becoming technologically educated. Since digital is the 21st century than I believe that teachers should too. We need to be educated enough to understand our students. I have a teaching degree, a masters degree, an ESL endorsement and a Gifted endorsement.

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