Landforms & Ginormous Give Away

We just wrapped up our unit on landforms with a very hands-on activity.  
Last year's landform project was quite time consuming and difficult to complete without several volunteers.  So, this year we changed it up a bit.
First, students painted land and water on a sturdy paper plate.   They dried quickly.

   

Meanwhile, at home, my hubby made a salt dough recipe.

 

YOU WILL NEED:

A cup salt

2 cups of flour

¾ cup of water

 

 The next day, students used the salt dough to create a few landforms of their choice after review.

Here is a valley in the making!

These had to dry over the weekend before painting.

Don't you just love the volcano!

Ocean, river, pond, valley, volcano, 2 mountains.

Ta-da!  Done!  My kiddos loved this & were quite as a mouse (even my most rowdy one) while painting them.

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I am joining Michelle @ Our Sweet Success for a Ginormous Give Away!  You have to check it out and enter!  They are anticipating over $100 in product.

You can link up to join the Give Away until March 1st.

You can begin to enter the GiveAway on March 3.  

I will be offering one of my TPT products for free.  You may want to go ahead and browse my store to pick your favorite.

 

Landforms

My class has been studying landforms over the course of a week. To end our study we made landform models using a salt dough recipe. I ordered molds from Lakeshore Learning (which is one of my FaVoRiTe stores)! Click here to see the molds.

First, students pressed the dough into the molds.

Second, carefully remove dough by pulling the corners and letting the dough slowly fall out. This takes patience. Then, let the dough dry for several days.

Finally, students can paint and label the landforms. My students LoVeD this activity.

If their landforms cracked like this one, I told the students it was an earthquake.

Hints:

• Spray molds with lots of cooking spray to make for easier removal.
• Have parent volunteers work with small groups.
• Make dough ahead of time or have 1 parent in charge of mixing the dough.