The Story of the World 2 activity book is just full of great ideas to add to our study of the Middle Ages. This time the kids dressed up like monks in very simple robes made from cut up brown shirts of daddy's. They made clay cross necklaces (which you may or may not be able to see in the picture below- they blend in with the robes.) These didn't actually ever harden the way I was expecting so that was a bummer. Two have already broken. Brian really got into this and tied rosaries around their twine belts and brought some Gregorian chant music for the meal. He even lit a candle. Genna also was fully in character telling us we should even have a silent meal like the monks did. You can imagine how well this worked, but it was a much quieter dinner than usual. Even Drew was quieter we noticed. When Genna realized that the silent eating wasn't going to happen she suggested that we only talk about God if we were going to talk. Hannah thought we should eat on pillows, so she filled each seat with a pillow.
The meal consisted of home-made (crock-pot) lentil soup, bread with butter (we pretended we were monks on holiday,) an assortment of cheeses, apple slices, and apple cider. Isaac was the only one who didn't like the soup, but he doesn't like any soup. Even Drew liked it.
They are already asking when we can do this again.
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