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Clay House – Tea Light Candle Holder

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This charming little clay house is a delightful craft project that is both easy to make and visually appealing. The design is simple and straightforward, yet the end result is quite stunning. These miniature light houses would make excellent gifts for the holiday season, and are also perfect for adding a touch of Christmas cheer to your own home decor.

While the tutorial for this project is not in English, the photos are clear and easy to follow, making it simple to recreate this craft regardless of your language proficiency. The step-by-step instructions are presented in a visually intuitive way, ensuring that even novice crafters will be able to create these lovely little houses with ease.

This is a fun and engaging project that is sure to bring a smile to the faces of all who see it. Whether you’re making these houses as gifts or as decorations for your own home, you’ll be delighted with the end result. So gather your clay, your tools, and your enthusiasm, and get ready to create something truly special!

Tea Light Houses.

Looking for clay? I 100% recommend Das Clay, I have been using it for over 20 years. 

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Using Pizza and Pretend Play to Learn about Fractions

When my daughter was young she loved the PBS show “Peg + Cat,” and if you’ve got a fan of that show in your house this activity will be even better, but it doesn’t matter if your kids don’t already know these characters to learn about fractions with pizza. 

There’s an episode of “Peg + Cat” where they are working in a pizza place and have to divide pies to put different kinds of toppings of different parts of the pie (there’s also an online game with the same concept, which I can’t believe still exists because my kiddo played it years ago). 

Inspired by the episode and a companion book, Nature Homeschool developed an activity for learning about fractions and entrepreneurship using pizza. They developed a pizza shop and used the printables and teaching guide from Teacher Vision to learn more about fractions using pizza as the foundation. Their post also has a pizza order form printable you can use when you role play a pizza shop. 

The Inspiration Edit also has some cute printable worksheets using a pizza to learn about fractions. And Life Over Cs has some fun printable pizza fraction activities, such as the printable fraction memory game shown here. 

If you want to increase the pretend play factor with this one, you can make a pizza and toppings out of paper, cardboard or felt. Or use a paper plate as your crust and simple shapes cut out of paper to be toppings. The pretend play pizza making kit from Glued to My Crafts uses an individual slice, but you could do the same thing with a whole pie’s worth of slices. 

Kids Craft Room has another fun pizza play food idea, this time using salt dough for the crust. The toppings are made out of felt so you can practice putting different toppings on a fraction of the pizza and learn as you play.