In our continued “study” of colonial America, we did further reading from chapter 3 of Great Colonial America Projects You Can Build Yourself. We had a couple of projects to choose from today, and the boys wanted to make “rag” rugs. I say “rag”, because I didn’t have any real rags or old t-shirts I was willing to forfeit. Instead, I diverted some plastic grocery sacks from the recycle pile. The boys cut the bags into strips and began braiding (with some instruction - I guess I never taught them to braid!). B made a short length, but E kept braiding and braiding and braiding. We had to leave for awhile and he came back and braided some more! He really enjoyed the activity and ended up with a length of braid about 7′ long. He wants to coil it into a rug tomorrow, usng glue instead of sewing it together.