Kids throughout the ages have been entranced by magical themes and all the mystery and endless possibilities that lie within them.
Why not utilise their fascination with this theme in your homeschooling plans? We've found that almost any learning area can be incorporated into a magical theme. In fact, it's quite easy to pick an activity and spice it up with magic terms and magical story to go along with it. It can change the potentially boring into something enticing and exciting!
Below are some of the activities that we have created, along a Magical Theme.
A Magical World
Creative writing, combined with art/craft.
Create your own magical world. Describe this world in a literary work.
Then, paint or build a scene depicting your magical world.
A Tapestry of Magic
A craft and creative writing activity.
Magic weaves a secret tapestry throughout the universe.
Design and make a wall hanging depicting a magical scene, symbol, or pattern using embroidery, patchwork, collage, weaving etc.
Write a story or descriptive article about your completed project.
A Wizards Guide
Creative writing, art and photography.
Make a guide book suitable for a wizard taking up a position as a teacher at a School of Magic.
Illustrate your guide with drawings and photographs.
Wand Cauldron
A creative craft activity.
Make a cauldron to keep your wands, fancy pencils etc in.
Broomstick Users Guide
An activity which uses creative writing, plus artistic illustration or photography.
Create a users guide for the latest broomstick.
Illustrate your guide with drawings, or posed photographs.
For an extra challenge, make a video version of the guide!
Famous Wizards
A creative writing project.
Write about a famous wizard in movies or books... or write a guide to several famous wizards.
you can even create your own wizard, and make him/her "famous" in your own work of fiction!
If Only They Were Wizards
A creative writing activity, using current affairs.
Find articles, in newspapers or magazines, which show muggles (non-magical beings) struggling with some situation or other.
Re-write it as it might have occurred if the main person had been magical instead!
The Great Gnome Caper
An imaginative photography activity.
Create a photographic display of what these magical little beings get up to while their owners are away!
You might even like to make your own paper mache gnome.
Wizard Totem Pole
This is an activity containing practical artistic and craft skills, geographical and historical elements.
Research traditional totem poles, their purpose and design.
Explore your own family history and your own talents and ideals.
Design and create your own totem pole!
Wizard Explorers
A creative writing activity, which also incorporates reading comprehension and mapping skills.
Read the journal exerpts of one of the greatest wizard explorers of all time! From these, create your own map of The Great Lost Lands! Fill in the missing journal entries to finish your map!
Have fun!
More to come in future posts!
