Learned about the founding of the American colonies and then bring them to life by simulating life in the colonial era.
Looking for an art project to do while studying early American history with your kids? I’ve got a fun and easy colonial flag watercolor art project for you.
This guide shares 33 fun colonial kids activities (Colonial themed activities) including colonial games, colonial costumes, colonial food and colonial crafts.
These resources and hands-on activities for studying colonial times will go great alongside your history lessons. Colonial times are worth studying.
Now that some of my children are moving into middle school, and soon high school, I wanted each of them to have a timeline notebook that they can use and add to throughout their middle
Hands-On History Lessons Your Kids Will Love! Homeschool in the Woods Colonial Times American History - come see all the projects we do!
The connection between social studies and art includes different cultures while using art to explore history in new ways. Read more!
We are in the midst of studying Colonial America, and we are really enjoying it. Today we decided to get into the act by making our own qui...
Breaking news … we finished a project. Yes, US! We actually finished a project! For this project we used a map in Kris Bordessa’s Great Colonial American Projects You Can Build Yourself…
Excellent for all levels. From colouring in detailed illustrations of Viking artefacts to labelling them, children can develop knoweledge of the Vikings.
While studying middle school history, bring Colonial America to life by playing the same simple games kids did while living in the 13 Colonies.
Kids are more likely to be engaged and remember what they've learned when you bring history to life. Making your own quill and homemade ink is perfect for a Colonial America unit or Revolutionary War unit.
If your granddaughter or daughter loves American Girl, then she'll fall completely in love with this historical inspired outfit. This AG Inspired Colonial Doll Outfit is perfect for American Girl fans, especially if they can't get enough of Felicity, and comes with instructions for making the skirt, apron, mop cap, and more. This doll clothes tutorial is a fantastic way to make some designer inspired doll clothes for a fraction of the cost, and is the DIY birthday gift that's sure to be on your granddaughter's gift list. Don't spend a fortune on expensive doll clothes and make your own DIY historical costumes with this easy sewing project.
Get hands-on with these history activities for preschool and kindergarten! Here are crafts, books, and more for bringing history alive.
Medieval Japan Lapbook and Unit Study here at Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus is fun. You'll love my other homeschool lapbooks.
We have been studying life in Colonial Times. There are so many wonderful hands-on activities for kids to participate in for this time period. We just finished learning about Colonial Silversmiths. We read The Silversmiths (Colonial Craftsmen) by Leonard Fisher from a great series of books from the library about Colonial Craftsmen. We learned that there weren't banks in colonial times but that the local silversmith acted like a bank. People realized that their silver coins were hard to protect because if they were stolen there was no way to prove that those coins had belonged to them. So many people brought their silver coins to the silversmith who then melted them to created beautiful silverware pieces like platters, spoons, cups, etc. This made their valuable silver more easy to identify if it were ever stolen. We also learned about a famous silversmith named Paul Revere who later became famous for his role in the Revolutionary War. We also watched some videos demonstrating colonial silversmithing as well as different ways to make silver items including silverplating. Here is one of the videos we watched that gives a great demonstration on silversmithing as it was done in the colonial days: After we learned about silversmiths, we found a fun activity to make our own decorated silver trays in the book Colonial Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in the New World (Hands-On History). I really love this book for activity ideas! We obviously aren't going to melt down silver but we took more of a silver plating approach and a added a lot of decorative touches the way the true colonial silversmiths did. We started with some basic supplies we already had around the house - a foam tray, glue, aluminum foil, yarn, and scissors. We started by making a puddle of glue in a paper plate. Be careful with this step if you let the preschooler squirt the glue out. It won't look like enough for her until the whole bottle of glue has been emptied. Next the kids thought about what kind of design they wanted to make on their silver trays. They cut some pieces of yard and dipped them in the glue. Nicholas thought this would be terribly messy. I told him it would wash right off his hands but he grabbed some sandwich bags from the pantry to use as make-shift gloves. Good resourcefulness. He soon learned that his "gloves" were cumbersome and made it harder to grip the yarn so he ditched them and embraced the messiness. Rachel made a cross with some decorative swirls under it. Nicholas made a giant letter "N" on his tray. We let the trays dry for one day then the kids covered them with heavy duty aluminum foil. They used their fingertips to gently press the foil into the edges of the yarn to make their design show through. But as you are helping to pick up after the craft, don't forget about your messy-loving preschooler. Mine soon decided it was fun to just play with the glue tray! NOTE: This post contains affiliate links.
Looking for an art project to do while studying early American history with your kids? I’ve got a fun and easy colonial flag watercolor art project for you.
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I love simple open & go curriculum/guides that tell my highschooler exactly what to do! I stumbled upon this FREE American History Curriculum for High School and wanted to share it with you because it is just that - open and go. Tells you what to do and when and it is super easy to figure out.
This set contains all of the images shown: colonials at work doing different jobs. It includes a basket maker, blacksmith, silversmith, cooper, wigmaker, shoemaker, tailor, brick maker, printer, town crier and cabinet maker. 22 images (11 color and the same 11 in B&W) Images saved at 300dpi in PNG files. For personal or commercial use. CLICK HERE for TERMS OF USE This is a zip file. Before purchasing, please check that you are able to open zip files and ensure that your zip opening software is updated. ©Educlips LLC 2015 Follow Educlips on Facebook Follow Educlips on Instagram Keywords: clipart, art, clip art, clipart for teachers, history, American history, social studies, colonial jobs, early settlers
Learn about ants types, ant colonies, and ant body parts for elementary-age kids and homeschool kids. Uses a fun story to help children learn.
I have always enjoyed teaching Native American Indians to my kindergarten and first-grade students. There is so much to explore and learn about the first Americans. And one week of study covers a wide variety of learning goals.One year while planning a Native American unit of study my principal asked a colleague why we were
We have finally gotten to Olivia's third grade year. She has many projects to complete this year (yay third grade) but the biography pos...
Our Landforms Interactive Notebook is a great tool to study and learn about the world around us and learning about landforms and bodies of water.
I've always read about the art teachers and the music teachers doing a joint effort to showcase student talent. You know, the whole concert/art exhibit thingy. And it seemed liked a really good plan. Soooo when I finally settled in, to my first full time position, in one school, with my very own art room......... I decided to connect with the music teacher to pull this off. I was so EXCITED! I could promote my art program! YEA! Until I found out that the music teacher decided to change the venue. The concert was being moved down the block, to the middle school, to accommodate all the students and their families. Now fast forward a few years-AND I find out we are ALL moving to the middle school while our building is being renovated. AND I could finally have my first official ART SHOW!! YEA!! So last year, our first year in the school, our music teacher choose to do three concerts. The first concert with 2nd and 3rd graders, the next one with kindergarten and 1st grade, then the last one with 4th and 5th graders. The mascot at the middle school is a ship and we are all Raiders! Soooo to get into the spirit of our new home school I decided we would do paintings of pirate ships. In my drawing center I have the series of easy step by step drawing books and the How to Draw 101 Things That Go had the perfect 17th Century Ship. This was also the perfect way to introduce the drawing center to new students and to show them how to follow the step by step directions. I presented the lesson using a power point as I modeled the directions. I included instructions for painting and clean up. They were also told that they could include their own details and that they were not required to make it look like mine or the drawing sheet. And they didn't!! It actually amazed me that they were all so completely different. We did talk a little about Romero Britto and I showed them some examples of how colorful his work is and they took it from there. Here are a few of the sections displayed. I received really good feedback from admin and parents. And I continued to exhibit along with the other music performances. What was your first art exhibit like? Thanks for reading!
Learn about early American clothing in the 17th and 18th century, including the fashions and styles of the time.
American Symbols is one of my FAVORITE units to teach. It must be yours too because over 12,000 teachers have purchased this unit from Teachers Pay Teachers ! It meets the Common Core Standards for Informational Reading with rigor and brings your classroom joy while reading! Updated with more crafts and symbols see below! My students LOVED this unit! I got 4 parent notes telling me how much they enjoyed hearing their child talk informatively and passionately about Social Studies. One parent said that their child doesn't talk much at the dinner table, and now he won't stop talking about school and symbols! I think it's because the unit is written to be kid friendly and engaging! Here are a few of the Statue of Liberty pages I wrote a week of fluency for the Statue of Liberty too. Each Symbol has a full writing unit Remember the update has even more art! 2 Interactive Little Books have been included for launching the unit and explaining what a "symbol" is. Oral Speaking "pledge page" with assessment rubric Tons of Activities like these: Math Graphing Bulletin Board You also get full color pages of all 5 symbols to make your bulletin board so cute. Also, you need a great way to show your graphing data. I included all the pages that kids need in order to understand that symbols are everywhere! Need grades for your grade book? Me too! I created several tests. Bonus American Symbols Mock Election Material The Reading Fluency passage comes in three levels. Low First Grade First/ Low Second Second Grade Anchor Charts and Registration to Vote Time to vote Anchor Chart, Secret Ballot, and Graphing to discover the winner Easy Graph (Tally Marks) "Harder" Graph ******* Update 1 ****** I am excited art added and has become available as BUNDLE! The one above has art as a bundle If you don't want / need the art, you can buy without it too. 62 Printables and 6 art projects! Pick and choose or do them all. This has open house written all over it! 2 student books 3 math and literacy activities 1 game 8 fluency & reading comprehension pages 5 writing units (From pre-write to publish) Syllables Activity Vocabulary Word Searches Clues Page (possible assessment if you choose) 2 patriotic student writing pages 1 oral speaking activity with parent note & grading rubric 3 assessments 6 art projects ***** Update 2 ***** So many of you asked for The Washington Monument to be added.
