Teaching Kids History and Mythology with Crafts
At MythologyCrafts.com we love holidays of any kind ancient or recent and from ANYWHERE in the world. We have assembled some of our best winter crafts and goodies here. So check it and and enjoy some creative time with the family this year! Saturnalia Cookies Saturnalia was a celebration of the god Saturn and it […]
At MythologyCrafts, we are always looking for fun ways to engage with history and Christmas time is a perfect occasion to serve up some playful and educational fun! Check out this list of our top 10 Christmas Gifts. Stonehenge: About 3100 BCE The Stonehenge Nanoblocks Set: £20 Create your own 3-D model of Stonehenge with this […]
Native American: Ring and Pin Game Craft Rules of ring and Pin As you can see in the photo above, the ring and stick game is pretty simple. This was a game commonly played by children and women. The object is move the stick so that ring is tossed into the air. Then the player […]
Cornucopia Craft: Zeus’ Horn of Plenty Every year at Thanksgiving there are plenty of images of the cornucopia. It is an ancient and famous horn that symbolizes a successful and fruitful harvest. It overflows with the bounty of the summer’s farming. Many of us associate it with the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth, but guess what? […]
Fun, easy, educational craft. Make your own clay Cerberus, three-headed dog of the Underworld. Learn about Greek Myths. Great for kids and home school.
“Quetzalcoatl” by Travis S. is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Who were the Mayans? The Mayans are a group of people who lived in the Yucatan Peninsula in what is today Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. They inhabited the area for more than one thousand years and were most powerful between 250 and 900 AD. Like […]
Although ancient peoples did not have phones or electronics like us, they still wanted to be entertained and wanted to play quick and easy games. In the past we have explored games played in ancient Rome– like Rota, the Roman version of Tic-Tac-Toe. Now, we will take a look at Native American games played by […]
Cleopatra’s Snake — An easy bead craft Cleopatra could be considered one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs. But guess what? She was not ethnically Egyptian. Cleopatra was actually Greek! She was a descendant of Ptolemy, who was one of Alexander the Great’s main military advisors. When Alexander the Great died, his empire was divided […]
The heavens and underworld that the Cahokians and other Native American tribes in the area believed in were less related to death rituals, like the underworld of the Greek and Roman cultures. These are not heaven and hell in a Christian sense. Instead, we might think of them as more like realms related to where […]
The Ancient Liberty CaP “Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People” by john weiss is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 History of the cap As you can see in the famous painting by Delacroix, the goddess Libertas is wearing the red cap of liberty as she leads the French people to revolt. Although, this painting is […]