Housebuilding Bug

Okay, the housebuilding bug bit me today... hard. I wanted to plan Farming and Gardening first so that the topics would flow organically into one another but I am just so excited about Housebuilding (and I've learned it has been the most popular topic on the summer camp sign up sheet) that I wanted to get started.

Here is the plan for Day One:
introduce the topic with Andrew Henry's Meadow by Doris Burn

nature walk, look at natural resources of our area, read How Do People Live? (an overview of dwellings around the world)

Plains Indians - Houses of hide and earth by Bonnie Shemie

morning activity - erect a bamboo tipi and plant seeds around it ("Beans, Gourds, Pumpkins and Poles" from Sunflower Houses : Inspiration from the Garden - A Book for Children and Their Grown-Ups by Sharon Lovejoy

art - The Lion and the Little Red Bird by Elisa Kleven, painting with crushed berries and different kinds of earth (clay, ochre)

cooking activity - grind corn with mortar and pestle, make cornbread for snack along with buffalo jerky

storytelling - "A Happy Day" from The Circle Never Ends

afternoon activity - cornhusk dolls (if we have extra time, play marbles)