7 wonders of the ancient world project

August 20, 2019

7 wonders of the ancient world project

This was one of my favorite homeschool projects ever. We took the whole summer to complete this project. We spent 1 week on each wonder and then 2 week planning our ancient party. We are planing on studying ancient history this school year so this project was a good introduction. Each kid got to choose the design and materials they wanted to use. Their projects were 100% unique. We didn't follow any how to's we just used things around the house and made several trips to the dollar store. I loved their creativity on this project. They learned how hard these were to build in real life when they had to construct them their selves. We had 14 completed projects at the end of summer. Our 4 year old didn't complete all of the wonders he came in and out of the projects, which was fine as he is so young. We had a blast building the 7 wonders and learning about them too.

Our first wonder was the hanging gardens of Babylon. We listened to the Classical Conversations song about the seven wonders while we were studying them. We don't do CC but I found their song on YouTube. Maddy used a Ramon Noddle box and then cut up pool noddles from the dollar store to make her different levels. We bought decorations from the dollar store to add to her project.

Caiden is working on the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. Maddy's project for this was a lot simpler. Caiden created Zeus using cardboard and clay then painted it. It was the project that took him the most time and he was defiantly the proudest and fondest of this creation.

This is Maddy's Colossus of Rhodes. She took a cereal box and cut a section out of it and spray painted it brown. We went through a good bit of spray paint for these projects. She then spray painted a barbie from the dollar store gold. She used clay and hot glue to keep the feet in place.

Westin is working on the Pyramids of Giza here. This is one of the projects he enjoyed doing. The big kids made the pyramid for him and he painted it. All of the kids pyramids were just cardboard glued together.

Maddy making the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. This one was a little tricky to make. Maddy ended up gluing glue sticks on the cardboard and spray painting it. Caiden tried a few methods that failed and eventually used Popsicle sticks.

Pharaohs lighthouse at Alexandria was a fun one. Maddy used an old saltine cracker box then glued a solo cup on top. She then attached a electric candle to a toliet paper roll and cut holes in it.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was more cardboard and toliet paper rolls that we spray painted. We also bought some toy soldiers and animal figurines and spray painted them gold. The beads were also from the dollar store.

Maddy's completed wonders are on the left and Caiden's are on the right. They were very proud of their projects. They then helped me plan the menu for the party. We got Little Cesar Pizza and had fruits and veggies. They also helped me play the games we would play at the party. I've attached some pictures of the activities. We had about 30 kids come. It was a great way to celebrate a fun learning project.