My 1st grade son has a 100 days of school project due next week where he has to build/create something out of 100 pieces of something. He absolutely loves drawing maps and road systems and has decided he wants to make a map showing the path from our house to the school. Great idea from my little future civil engineer! However, I am having a hard time trying to figure out what 100 things to use to make this map. It has to be able to be rolled up or be able to actually make it to school without falling apart. I am usually very creative with such things, but household sickness this week has dumbed my brain significantly. Ideas? I thought about maybe using 100 different colors to draw the map with a legend on the back showing all the colors used. I don't know. As you can see I need help. TGIF.
Great ideas. Come to think of it, I have 1000 of those star foil stickers, so I might go with that. I do like the cheerios idea too. I'll ask him what he prefers. You moms are AWESOME! Thank you!!
What about having 100 stickers on it ? You could get stickers for houses, trees, cars, people, etc.
A map, how cute. Wouldn't it be cool if you could find 100 little tiny houses, like monopoly houses, and make a model of your neighborhood?
Buy a roll of 100 dot stickers. He can use them to create the path from home to school.
We made a hot pot trivet using 100 1 inch mosaic tiles - we chose the colors so we could spell out '100' with the tiles.
It was fun to make!
When we got the supplies my son picked out the colors he wanted, then he laid out the pattern (easy enough to plan this out in Excel), and we grouted it together.
Not only does it look great (it'll last for years) but it was easy to carry to school and back and with reasonable care (no throwing it around or banging it up) - it's not fragile.
We hung it up on the wall at home but you really can use it as a trivet for hot pots.
The teacher loved it, and she never saw anything like it before.
Check out Michael's or your local arts and crafts store and you'll find what you need.
How about including milestones.... on this day, indicate what he learned... on another, speak of something he found of significance..
on another he celebrated his birthday... The list can go on...
and is a good way of revisiting the past 100 days events that may also include many GREAT memories...
a trip down memory lane as it were..
good luck
100 mailboxes...100 steps to get to the other side...100 houses.....100 trees....100 animals.....100 yellow dotted lines in the street 100 kids playing.
id go with stickers.. or something that will be remotely flat to the paper.. theres always a chance that when you glue things on there like fruit loops for example, that will sitck way off of the paper that they will fall off before he gets to class.. even with the stickers id try to avoid rolling it up... the only other suggestion id have would be to buysome glue and a bag of pipe cleaners and cut them into 100 small pieces and he can use them to map out the path
get 4 single serve milk cartoons. Hot glue 3 of them in a row (He can paint them if he wants), this would be your school. The last cartoon would be your house. Link 100 paper clips together affix one end to the school and the other to the house.
You got alot of ideas, so I won't offer any. I just want to say that I'm so sorry this is still going on. I absolutely HATED 100 days school project. 19 years later they are still doing it. Blech!!
Dawn
Stickers, Fabric, Toilet Paper, Paper Towels, Toothpicks, Tin Foil, Colored Saran Wrap, Tissue Paper, Cardboard, Craft Paper, Construction Paper, Cereal Boxes.
Well, those are the material types that I can think of that could be found around the home easily. Beyond that I am not sure - good luck.
perhaps felt with little felt cut outs for the dots leading to school. my first thought was pennies! but that was before i read the questions. good luck ...i am not looking forward to these 100 days :/
My son and I figured out how to spell his name on a light Bright with 100 pegs! I loved the 100 days project!
If he's determined to make a map use oaktag, fruit loops and lots of glue. Each route to school can be a different color of fruit loops glued in the row. If there are five different routes each path would have about 20 pieces of cereal. Hopefully fruite loops have 5 didffernt colors? If not you can add cheerioes as another "color". Does your child take a bus to school? Is that why you're worried it won't make it in one peice? If that's the case use a hot glue gun instead of elmer's glue, once it's loosely rolled put it in a large plastic shopping bag and send along extra cereal peices to replace any that fall off.
My daughter, now 16, used pasta shells of different varieties, sand & paint to create a shell strewn seashore on oaktag. My son, now 13, made a cardboard shaped wrench and glued 50 nuts and 50 bolts to it. We helped with the cutting and glueing - but the ideas (& counting of course) were the kids'.
