Math:

• Decide on a budget and go shopping! Cut out "purchased" items to create a shopping collage as evidence of your shopping trip! Can you stay under budget???
  
  
• Create a color collage. Using drawing paper, create a page or area for each color. Search through magazines to find items of a specific color and paste them on the appropriate page/area!
  
  
• Make a usage graph. Pick a person (or event) and see how many times you find them mentioned in the set of magazines you have. Then, make a graph showing what you've found!
  
  
• Do a little cooking! Using a recipe you find, make yourself and your family a treat! Remember to measure carefully!
  

Language Arts:

• Write a news story suitable for one of your magazines.
  
  
• Find an interesting picture. Write or tell about what might have happened just before (or just after) it was taken.
  
  
• Write a silly story or create a new game using letters you cut out from magazine headlines.
  
  
• Find an item in a catalog and write a new description for it. For fun, pretend you are describing the item for someone/something from another planet!
  
  
• Make a dictionary. Use headlines to find words that begin with each letter. Cut them out and paste them onto folded paper ... one page for each letter!

Social Studies/History:

• Make a timeline of events found in the magazines you have. Cut out pictures to mark the events on your timeline!
  
  
• Pick one of your magazines. When was it first printed? What was happening in the world at that time?
  
  
• Think about it! If you were an archeologist, what would you think is important to the people of our time? Look at one or two of your magazines. What are they about? What do they advertise? Create a time capsule showing what is important to YOU. Use drawings, pictures from your magazines/catalogs, and writing to create your capsule!

Science

• How strong is the paper used to make magazines? Create an experiment to see what magazine uses the strongest paper.

Art:

• Using the pictures in magazines and catalogs, make a new creature. Use the head of one and the body of another. Make up a name for your creature. Tell where it lives, what it eats, and what it likes to do for fun!
  
  
• Make a collage. Tear interesting colors and patterns from your magazines and create a new picture with them.
  
  
• Tear a magazine/catalog picture in half and glue it to a piece of drawing paper. See if you can recreate the other half.
  
  
• Tear out a magazine/catalog page. Wad it up into a loose ball. Use it as a paint brush. Tear another out and wad it into a tight ball. Paint with it. Is there a difference? Experiment with your new paintbrushes!