worked with leather, embellished shells, and woven on a loom in Prehistory.
put on the eye makeup of Ancient Egypt.
and now here we are in Ancient Greece!
We've done a LOT of studying on the subject of Ancient Greece, including dressing the part--doesn't Syd make an adorable Spartan?
--so we didn't spend a lot of time on this particular unit in the study. Syd read the chapter on Ancient Greece in The Complete Book of Fashion History, found a rectangle of fabric (it just happened to be the My Little Pony blanket that I gave her for Christmas last year), and I helped her assemble her chiton.
It's really very simple. The fabric gets wrapped under one armpit, and the edges are pinned at the opposite shoulder--don't pin them right at the corners, which will make the neckline gape, but at a comfortable spot for a nice boatneck. Pin up the other side at the shoulder, as well, and there you have your chiton!
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We have neither made the decorative overfold nor added the belt--if your fabric is too wide, either or both of those will take care of the excess, but that My Little Pony blanket was made to be this kid's chiton!
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For extra embellishment, the clips that hold the fabric at the shoulders can also be fancy. And if you were male, your chiton could be knee-length.
Here are some more hands-on projects for studying Ancient Greece:
- make a cookie and Jello map of Ancient Greece
- make a felt olive leaf garland (modify it from this tute, though, because this isn't what they looked like)
- DIY a set of Spartan armor out of cardboard and duct tape
- make Athena's shield (or any hoplite shield) out of a pizza pan, spray paint, and clay
- make paper Greek tragedy and comedy masks
- make papier mache Greek vases
- draw blackline on terra cotta pots
- construct a temple out of a giant box
- make a clepsydra
P.S. If you like hands-on homeschooling projects, check out my Craft Knife Facebook page, where I share all the awesome homeschooling and hands-on resources that I come across.
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