Olympic Shrinky Dink Swag

This past week,

the kiddos and I

(and some friends)

have begun getting ourselves in the

Olympic-spirit.

I hope to share several of these activities

over the next week,

so you too can get in an

"Olympic-kind-of-mood"...

***

After using the Russia PowerPoint

found HERE,

I read the kiddos

The Littlest Matryoshka

by

Corinne Demas Bliss.

We discussed how Sochi is located in Russia,

and how their culture will be a big influence

on the 2014 Winter Olympics.

I then discussed the trading pins

(aka "swag")

that people acquire at events of this nature.

My challenge for the kiddos was to

create their own swag

based upon images that will be used

during this Olympics.

Personally,

I would have created a 

Matryoshka Doll

with an Olympic emblem on it...

...but the kiddos were drawn to the other images

I had found on  line and printed off

for them to look at.

(You can find several of these images,

such as the Sochi mascots and the pictograms

over on my Olympic Pinterest Board.)

The kiddos used colored pencils to trace

them onto Shinky Dink plastic sheets.

Then decorate their images using the colored pencils

and black permanent marker.

(Some of the kiddos created their own original images...)

 We baked the sheet saccording to the package directions.

When they cooled down,

we used E6000 to glue pin backs on the images.

After they dried a bit...

...they kiddos now have their own

swag to wear...

...while watching the Olympics!

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Linking up

with

History and Geography

and the

Olympic Activities and Crafts Linky Party