Educational Tools

This activity builds:
- Cutting, pasting, and arranging skills
- Bilateral hand use
- Fine motor skills
- Creativity

You will need:
- Paper plate
- Pizza toppings PDF and a printer
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Crayons, markers, etc.

Directions:
- Cut out the pizza toppings by following the grid lines. For an extra challenge, try cutting out the toppings as close as you can!
- Glue the toppings to a paper plate.
- Color in your pizza. Draw in any other toppings you want!

This activity builds:
- Pen control
- Cutting and pasting skills
- Bilateral hand use
- Creativity

You will need:
- Brown craft paper
- White craft paper
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Crayons, markers, paints, etc.

Directions:
- Trace your hand and forearm on a sheet of brown craft paper.
- Carefully cut out your hand tracing, then glue it to a sheet of white craft paper.
- Your forearm becomes the trunk of the tree, and your hand becomes the branches. Color in fall leaves around your tree and get creative!

This activity builds:
- Bilateral hand use
- Fine motor skills
- Independence and self-confidence

You will need:
- Flower pot template
- Craft felt
- Marker or tailor's chalk
- Scissors
- Hole punch (we used 1/8")
- 6-strand embroidery thread
- Tapestry needle
- Small binder clips or sewing clips

Directions:
- Cut out the flower pot template.
- Trace the template onto your craft felt using a marker or chalk (make 2).
- Cut out the pieces and clip them together.
- Using a hole punch, punch 22 holes (marked on template) around the vase.
- Prepare a tapestry needle with one yard of embroidery thread. For young children, secure the thread to both the needle and the felt pieces so that it doesn't slip out.
- Whip stitch all the way down one side, across the bottom, and up the other side of the flower pot, leaving the top open. Secure the thread and snip. (Tip: this activity can be reused again and again to teach older children different types of hand stitching.)
- Now that your flower pot is complete, you can go on a nature walk and fill it with all sorts of cool things!
Remember: always respect public trails, and only take organic materials (leaves, flowers, twigs, etc) that have already fallen to the ground on their own.

This activity builds:
- Penmanship
- Sketching
- Observations
- Patience

You will need:
- Archaeology worksheet
- Pen or pencil
- Clip board (optional)
- Compass (optional)
- A dig site such as your back yard, a sand box, the woods, etc.
- Trowel or scraper
- Mesh screen sifter (optional)

Directions:
- Find an area that you want to excavate, and make sure you have permission to dig there.
- Use your trowel or scraper to gently move soil aside as you search for artifacts.
- When you find an artifact, record your findings on your worksheet.

This activity builds:
- Penmanship
- Listening and/or reading comprehension
- Patience

You will need:
- Site worksheet
- Pen or pencil
- Clip board (optional)
- The America's Stonehenge mobile app

Directions:
This worksheet is best used during a tour of America's Stonehenge. As you navigate the site, the mobile app describes all of the various features around the property. You can also use the app at home, and read through or listen to the different stops on the tour.