In History we are learning about the nomads settling down in the fertile crescent. When they stopped roaming all around they needed to build their homes from stronger more permanent materials. They formed bricks from the mud around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
To show how they would have made bricks we made a few of our own. Chance got 2 cups of dirt from the backyard, we mixed that with 1/2 cup of flour and about 1/3 cup water then we formed the mixture into "bricks". We didn't have a mold so our bricks aren't very uniform. Chance had fun until the dirt became mud then it was too icky to touch. After a couple hours in the oven to dry them out we had fun building little towers and walls.
I walked in while the bricks were cooking to find this scene on Chance's desk. It is a shaduf. Here is a photo of it from his lesson:
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