Which special events are celebrated in your community? Create a 3-D timeline of community events—for any season!
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A community becomes more than just a group of people living in the same place when they join together for special events such as parades, festivals, and picnics. Gather information about events in your community such as outdoor band concerts, recycling events, and health fairs. Use Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils to record all of the information you find. You can easily erase if you need to correct spellings or change the dates.
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Write all the information on 12 large sheets of chart paper, one for each month of the year. Break into groups of two or three children, each group focusing on one month. Find out more about the community events that are scheduled in your assigned month. Send letters to the event coordinators to get details on what happens at the event, where it is located, times, and who sponsors it.
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Work with your group, using your imaginations and Crayola Model Magic® compound to create 3-dimensional representations of the events in your month. Be as creative as you like, forming miniature scenes or simple representations of the event, such as a watermelon for a community picnic or a float for a community parade.
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Here’s one idea: To create a bandshell to represent a summer concert, roll Model Magic compound flat with a marker barrel. Cut it in half. Curve one piece up and around the other piece, so one piece forms the floor and the other piece the curved walls and roof of the bandshell.
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Stack Model Magic strips to make risers. Create tiny musicians and their instruments, seated on the risers. Air-dry your sculpture for 24 hours.
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On a paper roll, create a 12-month timeline. Write each month along the line with Crayola Markers. Place the 3-D creations along the time line. Write details of each event on the timeline. Display your creation in a public building such as a library.
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