Powering Up My Dremel 4000

We here at CraftGossip.com were lucky enough to be sent the new Dremel 400o tool kit to review. I assumed this tool would be like all my other Crafty tools good for some things and not so great for others. Boy oh boy was I wrong! this dremel drill is the way to any crafty girls heart. It is powered up and capable of so many different jobs that it’s just amazing.

My review pack was for the Dremel 4000 30 tool kit which comes with 30, Yes I did say 30 accessories. Including circle cutter, sanding tools and a storage box.

So far I have used my drill (I have only had it 2 days) to drill holes in some pendant pieces, sand down some polymer clay beads, cut a round Christmas ornament out of balsa wood and I finished off with sanding down my dad’s toe nails. (ok that bit is not true) but if I wanted to I could have done it with the smaller attachments.

The new Dremel 4000 is compatible with any existing Dremel attachments you might have for older models making it perfect for upgrading to a more powerful one.

Here is the technical stuff on the drill and tool kit (via the Dremel website)

One of the subjects that’s often covered in preschool is learning about the five senses. Understanding our senses helps us describe the world around us and our experience in it, and it’s fun to explore the senses in different ways.

Rock Your Homeschool has a great free printables pack having to do with the five senses. I love the foldable activity shown above because it emphasizes that the way we really experience our senses is through our brains. They also have a sensory scavenger hunt printable, which doesn’t include taste but has the rest of the senses included.

Of course we don’t really want kids tasting things they find outside (unless you happen to have fruit or vegetables growing nearby) but I like the way Hands on Teaching Ideas handled it by including “something an animal would eat” on their five senses scavenger hunt.

Sea of Knowledge has lots of ideas for things to do with preschoolers to learn about the five senses, as well as this free with email signup template for making a five senses craft (you could also trace the child’s hands instead of using the hands in the template if you like).

Use a potato head toy you probably already have to play a five senses game with the download from A Little Pinch of Perfect. You could do the same thing on paper with a potato (or human body) shape and color on the different sense organs.

Simple Everyday Mom has a cute set of senses puppets you can print and play with, or use for different projects and crafts.

Preschool Packets has a whole set of posts dealing with teaching the five senses (the one linked here is for hearing but the rest are linked within that post), which includes a great idea for making shakers with kids to explore the sense of hearing.

Tim’s Printables has some cute five senses printables where kids can match the image to the sense you’d use to explore it. There’s also a body to label but I think there’s only a male version.

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