Help me and my son?

Question

My son has a map project he is in the forth grad and he has to place it on a blue poster boad and use flour salt and watter to make the map I never had this project growing up any sunggestions on how to do this

Answer 1

You mix the flour, salt, and water into a dough like play-dough, and then you use it to form mountains, etc. When it hardens it should stick to the poster board. If you want something more sturdy then poster board, check out foam board at a craft store. You can get blue foam board too.

Answer 2

Here are some recipes to make the play dough. I would omit the food coloring and use a little less oil as you may want this play dough to dry out a bit after it is formed as a topographical map. I think the intent is to show mountains, valleys, rivers, etc. in his map. He could either paint play dough or make small batches of different colors to represent mountains, forests, etc.

I do remember the days of helping with projects like this, and as a teacher myself I tried to make sure I always sent home good directions whenever anything like this was needed. Give the teacher a call is you are still unsure what is expected. I am sure s/he will appreciate the interest and be more than willing to explain.

Best of luck with it.

Answer 3

Did you even go to school growing up? By the way you wrote the question with its bad grammar and the five spelling errors, I'd guess you were absent a great deal.

I assume he has to make a topographical map with paper mache', no idea what size of the area? So easy, consult a relief map of the area to be studied. Create elevations, hills, valleys, and rivers with the mache'. Poster paints finish the project.

Answer 4

use glue to place the salt,flour,and the other things but not stick glue try elmers brand liquid glue that will should hold all the stuff together.now what you want to do is get the poster board and trace the image or map that you need to decorate then just place glue in an area(one area at a time) and the make sure u do it outside or something because it will get messy...ive never done this either or when i was in fourth grade so yeah um...just do that and see if it works (buy extra everything just incase)