Trev's been busy

We began studying the Celts this week, a topic which has always fascinated Trevor. When he was five, he was extremely impressed to learn that the Celts, during battle, would paint their bodies blue and fight naked. (Okay, he was more grossed out than impressed, but things like that stick with little kids, you know?)

My plan was to spend a few weeks covering Celts in depth this time around. Unfortunately, my library here is woefully short on Celtic materials, and my "choice" was limited to Fiona Macdonald's Celtic World. Trevor grabbed this book at the beginning of the week and took the initiative to do several of the book's activities.

A Celtic grail.

He wrote out a brief shopping list and we bought everything he needed at Walmart. (There's no way I'm dampening this enthusiasm!) He started a paper mache pottery vase, but since it's not done, I didn't get pictures. He made a cool Celtic hut with straw, cardboard and a little masking tape. He made a rune and a Celtic pottery pig out of modeling clay and had lots left over.

Various Pokemon and Ben10 figures.

There were a lot of leftover balloons (from paper mache), so he made several into characters from The Wind in the Willows. You recognize them, don't you? L-R: Toad, Badger, Mole; Ratty, baby and Papa Otter.


He's stuck with Harry Potter for three weeks! While I've known that he could read this, he's never shown interest in committing to a big book for this long.


We haven't been to the Spiderman coloring page website in some time, and they've added a lot of great pictures. He's been printing them out like crazy all week to color.


His week was already packed with co-op, swimming (um, although he didn't get wet), chess club, the Blue Ridge Institute, family day yesterday, and carving another spear and making a wooden sword today. Maybe he'll have a chance to rest during school this week?