We read about how Stonehenge was made, and how we aren’t entirely sure how they moved these hug 26 ton boulders from place to place. Of course you can’t just read about Stonehenge without building your own Stonehenge.
So, build we did. I’d read suggestions of trying this with rocks. But, our local rocks are all limestone and come out in very irregularly shaped blobs, not good for many craft projects. Next, I thought of bricks, but I’m sure someone would drop it on their foot, and then off to the ER we’d go.
Finally I remembered the Jenga blocks I had found at Michaels. I ended up deciding to buy these instead of getting blocks from CSN stores (I can’t wait to show you what I ordered, a bunch of Christmas and birthday presents for the kids).
This picture (above) is mere seconds before Batman decided to cause an “act of God” and destroy our Stonehenge. We had a lot of fun talking through how to make it and how to best balance the pieces.
Princess eventually joined in on the act and made her own mini-Stonehenge.
And of course it ended with the kid’s happily playing with the blocks, with a few extra guidelines added in. I had to literally divide the blocks down the middle and give half to each boy, because that was starting to get ugly.
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