Last week over at Mama Smiles there was a post about using painter’s tape to make roads, and I thought that sounds like fun, and I need to remember to do that. Then, we read our homeschool history lesson for the day in the Mystery of History 1*, and Darius 1 was known for fixing the roads in the Babylonian Kingdom and putting in a lot of infrastructure [This is future Ticia here, I’ve got a super busy week, and I’d updated this post ages ago, and thought I’d reshare it with you, so this week you get some of my favorites from years ago].
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AH HA! Perfect, so now we got to build our painter’s tape
So our Darius 1 preschool lesson was building roads out of painter’s tape
And our roads traveled all over. It went up a hill. A very steep hill.
And then the elephants started walking down it. No wonder he had to do so much maintenance for his roads. Elephants go down them.
Of course that was the only thing remotely in the correct time period that went down that road.
In the boys’ history of the world the Star Wars empire came in and contributed their tech. I don’t know which side they came in on, because these were relatively peaceful soldiers. They built roads, and drove up and down them.
Then they disappeared upstairs and fought EPIC battles to free the galaxy of unwanted scourge. EPIC
Want some more Babylon ideas? Maybe learn about the kings before or after Darius 1?
Too funny about the Star Wars! Neat lesson plan.
Will you please come and do all these fun activites with James? It makes me tired just thinking about it. I am more of the “read a book about it” type mom.
And for about four years Star Wars ruled in our house. My two big boys turned everything into a Star Wars battle and/or story.
Yes, we have also had many lessons such as Darius' roads occupied by Star Wars characters.
lol! That is a seriously steep road! And such diverse travelers =)
Sounds like they were on the side of the Persians 🙂
I love the steep road, wow, that must have been tough to build!
I have wanted to make tape roads too. They are so cool! Thanks for the reminder. We have school vacation all week, so maybe we will get to this!
I love what they did with the road. I was just thinking today whether the masking tape will leave marks on the carpet…
So much fun!! I think my girls would love to make roads w/painters tape too — thanks for sharing! I love how your boys have their own versions of history… they are so clever!
So funny an elephant and star wars characters. I love your children's imaginations.