We finished Sonlight C's Hands-on History Box. These projects covered World History 2 topics. Here's the link to the box: https://www.sonlight.com/hands-on-history-world-history-2
It's currently priced at $68 for the box.
The projects include:
- An astrolabe
- A Viking treasure box
- Viking Runes
- Signet ring
- Stained glass
- Samurai helmet
- A letterpress
- An Elizabethan theater (Shakespeare)
- The Wright brothers' glider
Everything you need for the projects is included in the box. It even includes glue and paint. There is a box full of instructions with pictures and templates for each project. The guide is very well-written.
My son loved the Hands-on History Box. Some of his favorites were the Viking Treasure Box, the Stained Glass, the Letterpress and the Samurai Helmet. He says his favorite project from the box was the Viking Runes. The box was one of his favorite things we did this year for 3rd grade.
Things we figured out over the course of the year:
- Almost every project worked better for us with a hot glue gun instead of the glue it came with. I know hot glue guns are not safe for kids, but I used the hot glue gun and he watched. The glue dots the kit comes with made sense, safety-wise, though.
- The projects are too difficult for smaller kids to do themselves. I helped him with every project.
- The Wright brothers glider needed some serious tweaking. Instead of using 12 toothpicks to fit the wings together, I glued 3 together into one thick toothpick and used 4 thick supports instead of 12 thin ones.
- The Stained Glass and the Astrolabe are definitely the easiest of the projects.
- They give you a little more of the craft items than you need, so if you lose or break a popsicle stick, it's ok.
Here's some pictures of our projects. I should have taken more pictures of the projects throughout the school year, but here's what I have:
