• Great food link!
• European Artist: parents please preview; could contain classic nudity
• Use this site for great pictures when making lap books.
• Here's real help with Feast Nights: food timeline and recipes galore! Enjoy!
• A timeline of classical music where you can also listen to the great composers!
• Jamestown Online Adventure: Play an online game to see if you know better than the early settlers did.
• Puzzlemaker input a list of words and this site will generate crosswords, word searches, codes, etc.
• Cookie Dough Recipe: A great alternative to salt dough maps.
• 2 c. smooth peanut butter
• 2 1/2 c. powdered milk
• 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
• 2 c. white corn syrup
Use these as symbols:
• Blue icing - lakes and oceans
• Green sprinkles - plains
• Clear sprinkles - deserts
• Chocolate chips - mountains
• Red candy strips - rivers
• M&Ms - capitals
Mix all ingredients together and put small portions on waxed paper. Makes about 25 small maps.
• Try Crayola's Model Magic: a great lightweight soft modeling substance. It air-dries quickly, and after it's dry, it can be sanded, painted, or decorated. Model Magic can replace Fimo for most projects suggested in Tapestry.

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Week 1: Twilight of the Western Roman Empire

• For review: the Roman arch and domes.
• Recipe for salt maps

Week 2: Byzantine Empire & the Eastern Orthodox Church

• St. Patrick website! Caution to parents: Site does mention ale & beer.
• Connected to the above: links to pictures of Byzantine art. Lots of model icons and pictures of Byzantine cathedrals.
• This site explains how medieval manuscripts were made. This site helps you to make your own.
• How to make a scroll.
• How to make stained glass: a video series for beginners!
• Tissue Paper stained glass project.
• Let's Do Dewey

Week 3: Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam

• Decorated Koran book covers
• Islamic Art for Kids
• A virtual tour of the Taj Mahal.
• Make a paper Taj Mahal.
• Islamic Art

Week 4: The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne

• For your display board: Falconry, North American Falconers Association, American Falconry
• Learn about the Middle Ages, feudalism, knights, chivalry, and heraldry! Click here for software to help kids to make their own shields (coats of arms). Click here for an online heraldry game.
• Origami Viking Helmet Folds
• Making a Viking Longboat.
• Take a virtual tour of a Viking building
• Learn about heraldry.

Week 5: Developments During the Viking Age

• How to make a simple viking ship
• Make a Viking ship out of a milk carton.
• How to make an advanced viking ship (.pdf)

Week 6: Medieval Life: Feudalism

• Build your own model castle. Free downloadable directions! Outstanding!
• Medieval Castle Building
• Castles on the Web: GREAT site for all things having to do with castles, heraldry, and medieval weaponry.
• Some really neat coloring pages of castles and knights. Fairly detailed, for those with good fine motor skills.
• Chainmail patterns
• Make a paper king's crown or queen's crown.

Week 7: The High Middle Ages

• Limbourg Brothers Illuminated Manuscripts. Wow!
• Lots of Limbourg Brothers Illuminations!
• Make your own illumination pages!
• Gothic painting
• Gothic Architecture
• Nice coloring pages for The Middle Ages!
• Middle English Lyrics and Songs
• Medieval book excerpts: parents please preview content!
• The Bayeux Tapestry

Week 8: The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East

• For your display board: Japanese armor
• The Perfect Armor

Week 9: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe

• A great idea for making stained glass looking projects is to use window cling paints! Special black paints (looks like leading) are filled in with special colored paints. When dry you can peel it off and apply to a window or mirror. Check out "DecoArt Liquid Rainbow Paint, Peel and Stick-On Transparent Paint", and "Window Art" by Barbara Kane (Klutz).

Week 10: Early Lights of the Reformation

• Learn about the origin of your family's surname!
• Finish all hands-on projects.

Unit Celebration: Medieval Feast

• Medieval Feast recipes: Click here or here.
• Medieval costumes
• Another site about medieval costumes
• General information about Medieval Feasts.
• A user shared: "We are getting ready for our feast on Saturday, and I went shopping for material to attempt to make costumes. Check out Halloween costume clearance sales! I found great costumes for a nominal fee! Most were priced from $.74 - $4.99. Some things need to be altered a bit, but it cut my work dramatically! Happy Feasting!"
• Wassail Song

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General Resources for this Unit

• See pictures of Inca weaving patterns and modern Incas weaving.
• European artwork: Select date, Europe, part of Europe you want to search, and "Works of Art" (below the timeline).
• Aztec Calendar
• Renaissance music

Week 11: Introduction to the Southern Renaissance

• 18th-Century Paper Doll Game
• Giotto, Kiss of Judas
• Florentine Renaissance Artist: from the Met (classic nudity)
• Renaissance Art in Florence. Excellent links. (Classic Nudity)
• Durer's woodcut The Four Horsemen from the Apocalypse
• Donatello: Repentant Magdalene, Tabernacle of the Annunciation
• Music in the Renaissance
• Elements and Principles of art: nice video.
• The Elements of Design: here.
• Elements of Design: Line
• Elements of Design: Color, here
• Elements of Design: Value
• Elements of Design: Texture, here.
• Elements of Design: Form and Space
• Principles of Design: Contrast, Emphasis, Balance, Repetition, and Unity

Week 12: The Southern Renaissance & the Early Explorers

• How to use a compass.
• Sky Map Online

Week 13: The Southern Renaissance & the Age of Exploration

• Activities to learn about spices (pdf)
• Michelangelo website
• Michelangelo: Studies for the Libyan Sibyl
• The Vatican site for the Sistine Chapel and The Last Judgement - cool zoom tool! - includes some classical nudity.
• Renaissance art in Rome
• Raphael: The Vatican site for The Raphael Rooms - cool zoom tool! - includes some classical nudity, School of Athens

Week 14: Spanish Dominion & the New World: Aztecs & Incas

• Make an Aztec Sun Stone
• Aztec calendar
• Download this online Aztec game of Patolli.
• Weaving project: Make a Change Purse, Fiesta Table Decorations
• What is a Hydrometer? Making and using a hydrometer.
• Tertiary Colors
• Proportional Drawing: Face
• Use a grid and draw a photograph
• Still life for young children. Modern Still Life.
• El Greco: The Assumption of the Virgin, Madonna and Child and Saint Martina and Saint Agnes, Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple
• Venetian Renaissance Timeline
• Venetian School
• Renaissance Art Tour
• Titian: Crowning with Thorns
• Tiepolo at the Met
• Veronese: Pieta (with info about composition), Marriage at Cana
• 18th Century Venetian Painting at the Met.

Week 15: The Northern Renaissance & Its Scholars

• From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Pieter Breugel the Elder, Durer, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Still Life Painting in Northern Europe
• The Printed Image in Europe: History and Techniques, at the Met. Explore the difference between woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and more.
• Van der Weyden's biography and paintings.
• Van Eyck: The Arnolfini Portrait
• Psychology of Color
• Color Theory, Color Lessons
• Principles of Proportion
• The Elements of Art and Principles of Design
• Grid Drawing: simple and advanced.
• Explore Leonardo's Studio.

Week 16: The Reformation: Martin Luther & the German States

• Patterns and ideas for Renaissance costumes.
• Beautiful article and images on Art from the Reformation from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Hymns of Martin Luther
• Learn Luther's hymns in German or English! Entire text.
• Learn about tints and shades.
• Drawing faces and their features.
• Teach kids how to draw basic and complicated emotions.
• Silhouette project
• How to draw hair: here and here.
• Drawing a three-quarter view, Parents: beware as there is some nudity near the bottom of the page.
• View sketches of Leonardo's ornithopter then see one under development.
• Picture of Leonardo's helical air screw with background information on helicopter pioneers.
• Explore Leonardo's Studio.

Week 17: Reformation in Switzerland, England, & Scandinavia

• Patterns and ideas for Renaissance costumes.
• Shakespeare's food
• Lots of good information on Henry VIII.
• FREE printable game about Henry VIII.
• Rembrandt for kids.
• Beautiful and informative Rembrandt show from the National Gallery.
• Vermeer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Amish Virtual Field Trip
• Mennonite Virtual Field Trip
• Drawing people in full form (scroll down) Parents: beware as there is some nudity near the bottom of the page.
• Learn about flying machines in Leonardo's Studio.
• Learn about and build an Anemometer.

Week 18: Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, & the Netherlands

• Caravaggio's The Crucifixion of Saint Peter 1600 and The Conversion on the Way to Damascus 1600. Click on the big blue letter ‘I’s for more information and explanation.
• Ruben's Descent from the Cross, 1612-14
• Baroque Music Banquet: listen to composers from the Baroque era.
• Good explanation of the Baroque era
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• Caravaggio
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Trebuchet plans and instructions: this is a little advanced and may need adult supervision.

Week 19: Elizabethan England & the Scottish Reformation

• Make a paper Globe Theatre.
• Make Elizabethan (Masquerade) masks for your Unit Celebration.

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Week 20: Early New World Colonies & Eastern Europe

• How to make a cornhusk doll
• Virtual Jamestown

Week 21: Puritans in New England

• No links for this week.

Week 22: Charters, Creeds, & the English Civil War

• Native American homes

Week 23: Restoration Colonies & the Age of Louis XIV

• History of the Opera
• Learn to play the spoons
• Free harmonica lessons
• Basket Weaving

Week 24: Dissenters in America & the Age of Reason

• Johann Sebastian Bach

Week 25: Colonists & Native Americans

• Make a Quill Pen
• Make a Bird Feeder
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Native American Games

Week 26: Empires at Odds

• Preparing Snacks Using Colonial Recipes
• Listen to music by Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, and Vivaldi.
• George Frideric Handel
• Native American recipes
• Colonial Costumes for your Unit Celebration.

Week 27: Thirteen Established Colonies

• Rococo
• Guide to animal tracks
• Native American recipes
• Churn your own butter.

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General Resources for this Unit

• Two websites that offer colonial recipes: recipes only, or follow links at this site.
• Interactive activities for young students to play and learn about Native Americans.
• Native Tech: links to games, recipes, weaving, Native American life, etc.
• 18th Century Men's Fashion

Week 28: Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture

• How to make a hornbook: links here and here.

Week 29: French & Indian War

• Colonial Fun and Games
• Make a quill pen.
• Make your own hex signs
• Pemmican recipe
• The New England Primer, 1777 edition
• Fox & Geese
• Colonial Culture

Week 30: Give Me Liberty!

• No links for this week.

Week 31: First Battles for Independence

• No links for this week.

Week 32: Waging the Revolutionary War

• No links for this week.

Week 33: America under the Articles of the Confederation

• Wig making resource. This site includes step by step instructions for how to make a variety of wigs and the information on it can be adapted for making colonial wigs.
• 18th century clothing: interactive guide

Week 34: Writing the Constitution

• Make a watercolor painting.

Week 35: Federal Republic & French Revolution

• Food in Colonial America

Week 36: Perilous Times: The Adams Administration

• No links for this week.

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