|

Exploring Greek Mythology – Poppin Book Nook

Exploring Greek Mythology - 3Dinosaurs.com

This month for the Greek Myth theme for the Popping Book Nook we went about things very differently. We have been doing crafts and activities for the books and this time we did a field trip after reading our book: A Child’s Introduction to Greek Mythology: The Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures (Child’s Introduction Series). This book we took a little while to read over. We loved it has great stories and full of information that kids find easy to use.

We went to the Museum of Fine Arts to see what art work we could find there that matched up with some of the Greek Gods that we read about. We saw various things and loved the trip. Here are some of our favorite things we saw:

Exploring Greek Mythology - 3Dinosaurs.com

#1 – This is a statue of Athena. She was one figure we saw a lot of that museum.
#2 – This is art work featuring Dionysus the Greek god of wine and fertility. This had great details and a great carving to see.
#3 – The girls liked the statue of the boy riding the horse and his dog.
#4 – The pottery was something all my girls liked. They noted that most of the pottery was black and gold or bronze color.

While at the museum we ran into an activity they were having that day for kids. They explained that medallions were made to show people they cared about or honored. The girls were given circles of metal that was gold on one side and silver on the other side. (I have since learned it is this product or similar to it: ArtEmboss Pure Metal Sheet) They drew on one side and it became 3D on the other. After they were finished they wore them around the museum and played with them a lot!

Exploring Greek Mythology - 3Dinosaurs.com

Here is a look at front and back of one of them.

Exploring Greek Mythology - 3Dinosaurs.com

Guess what a Free Pack with this months Poppin Book Nook!

Free Mini Greek Mythology Pack - 3Dinosaurs.com

I wanted to add a little more to our explore of Greek Mythology. I put a very smaller pack together. It is has a lot of activities for older kids. This was so we could have some fun while reading parts of the book.

I did make it to use this the book we used for this months Poppin Book Nook book that we use: A Child’s Introduction to Greek Mythology: The Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures (Child’s Introduction Series). This pack has some Prek, Kinder and Tot but is mostly made for 1st to 3rd grades.

You can Greek Mythology Coloring Pages with this pack.

Free Mini Greek Mythology Pack - 3Dinosaurs.com

Free Greek Mythology Learning Pack contains over 90 pages:

(Part 1) 3 Part Cards, Which One Is Different, What Comes Next?, Prewriting Practice, Matching Cards, 4 Piece Puzzles, 10 Piece Puzzles, Color by Size, Mini Greek Mythology Book (Part 2) Fill or Greek Gods Information Pages, Learn about Greece, Picture & Writing , Trace and Color, Wall Cards, Trace Beginning Sound, Trace the Word, Write the Word, Circle the Beginning Sounds, Color the Green Mythology, Unscramble the Words (Part 3) Fill in the Missing Patterns, Letter Tile Words, Greek Word Writing, Wall Cards Sentences

Greek Mythology Tot Pack contains 28 pages:

Solid Line Prewriting, Dashed Line Prewriting, Which One is Different, Color by Size, 2 Piece Puzzles, Color the Box Book, Matching Cards, 9 Piece Puzzle, Matching Single Page, Shape Tracing

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com

23 Comments

    1. They did have a fun time! We love going there. Each trip we see something different. They explore each area one at a time. It is loads of fun to do.

    1. I will be buying MORE of that metal and soon! We loved it. I love that I can take them to a museums. I did not have that chance when I was younger but no fault to my parents they did do with me what they could.

      The printables just happened to come about. 🙂

  1. What a great time it looks like you all had at the museum. I love the medallion craft and naturally your printables are nothing short of AWESOME Cassie 🙂

    1. It is so easy to get overwhelmed. we don’t spend more than 2 hours there. And we make frequent trips so they can see more fun areas.

  2. What great activities and printables, Cassie! I love the idea of studying Greek Mythology to go with the Olympics. Thanks so much for sharing your free printables! I was happy to feature them as Free Printables of the Day at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and on Pinterest. 🙂

  3. This is a fantastic resource and I love your idea of incorporating Greek Mythology and the Olympics.

    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

    1. I think they go hand in hand for learning. I wanted to do it 2 years ago but did not have the skills and time to do it. This year I will be doing more with the girls. We are reading stories from the book and talking more about what we are doing.

Leave a Reply to Carla Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.