Fake
(originally posted on Ami's blog)
Spray paint a shoe box brown. Add boulders (pretty rocks ~ Hobby Lobby has these and so does Dollar Tree), leaves, plastic insects, Spanish moss, and water (I bought blue cellophane and glued it to white cardstock. I let Elijah cut out a water shape). I found salamanders at Wal-mart in the fishing lure section. Use hot glue to really make things stick. I let Elijah design his box and then I glued everything in (while he stood back because my hot glue gun could kill a person).
Organic
(originally posted on Candace's blog)
We went outside and hunted for leaves, rocks, branches, flowers, anything to put in the boxes we had to make our own salamander rooms. We talked about the things that Brian put in his room for his salamander and tried to find some of those same things. We also added some plastic insects that I found at the thrift store! Tomorrow we will add our painted salamanders!
