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Today's project is a paper sloyd letter box. This is the 13th supplementary model from the book Paper Sloyd for Primary Grades by Ednah Anne Rich. It is another project that I had to research. We don't tend to have letter boxes these days, but apparently they were a thing, back in 1905 when this book was published. This may be because, sadly, letters are almost obsolete nowadays. In the early 1900s, they were a valuable form of communication, and were therefore kept in beautiful boxes. Letter boxes were made from all sorts of sources, including metal, wood, and paper. Ours,...

We've made several boxes on our paper sloyd journey. The complexity of each grows as we progress through the course. However today's model, a paper sloyd box with cover, seemed to be a bit of a break from the recent challenges that we've had in creating our models. It was fairly straight-forward and simple. There was some detailed measuring involved, but the cutting was minimal, and it still came out beautifully. The paper (or cardboard) recommendations in the book, Paper Sloyd for Primary Grades tend to be antiquated (being that it was published in 1905), and perhaps...

Maybe I should have seen this one coming.  I should have known better than to promise paints to my preschoolers on the second day of a diet.  But I did and I was awoken by two eager little kiddos this morning, asking:  "Can we paint now?  Can we paint now?"  They wouldn't stop until I grudgingly got up and showered. They horsed down their breakfasts so that they could get their paint aprons on.  Who knew that was so exciting?!  I thought we would start simply and see how it all went, so we began with a couple of favorites,...