Monsters, Flowers and Eggs! Oh, My!

Today was a very active day in Hogwarts.

We started off by doing our wand worksheets.  We made our wands last time and this time we got to fill in our worksheets about what our wands are made of.  The form we used is on my printable tab.

Next we worked on our dragon eggs!  I got red and green clay (I wanted something that would dry hard, so I got some of the crayola clay that hardens in 72 hours).  We wrapped the clay around plastic easter eggs and then added gems, chains and other designs.  We were not too thrilled with the clay.  I think we will try this again with a better clay that can be molded and sculpted better.  Here is what they look like:

I will report back on how well they hardened.  I believe the jewels are going to fall off once it dries.  We shall see.

After making our eggs, we got to get our first monster for our Care of Magical Creatures class.  I had all the monsters in a bag (like they used on the movie to draw the dragons out of in The Goblet of Fire).  Each student picked a monster and then picked a cage for it.  Then we all filled out worksheets (see the printable page for a copy of it).

Finally, we had Herbology class.  I sent the students out to find small flowers and other things to press.  I read a post on how to microwave your flowers for emergency pressing (or for those of us who have no patience!).  HERE IS THE LINK for how to microwave pressed flowers.

I didn't have any crafts picked out to do with them but we did put them on a page for our Herbology manual. (And of course I have a copy of the form/worksheet on my printables tab!)

It was a wonderful day!  I can't wait for next time!