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Sail with the Pilgrims when you make this Mayflower craft

June 3, 2011 Ticia 12 Comments

There are a whole slew of great books about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower to use for our history lessons, but I wanted to do something a little different, so we watched, drumroll please:

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving*

I remember seeing this as a little kid and my Mom recording it, as well as the other historical specials (which I think I’m the only one who remembers these), and then watching it over and over and over again. The Pilgrim Thanksgiving is included as a bonus feature and I make the kids watch it every year…….

 

Ahhhh……  Good times!

Mayflower craft for preschool

(Future Ticia here, now at 10 and 11 years old they ask to watch the Pilgrim Thanksgiving, and the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, also links marked with an * are affiliate links)

 

And what else do you do when learning about the Pilgrims, but make a Mayflower?

Our Mayflower craft

Mayflower craft for early elementary

I saved a whole slew of milk cartons and orange juice cartons, much to Jeff’s chagrin who was wondering why our counter was coverd in drying milk cartons. I cut a hole in them, and then let the kids happily paint their own Mayflowers with brown acrylic paint*.  They spent a happy few minutes painting and chatting away after watching the Charlie Brown Mayflower episode.

 

Putting our Mayflower craft to work to make aMayflower small world play

Mayflower craft small play

And now about a week later, while they’re resting I’ve set them up along with two of the lighthouses to be a fun playscape when they come down from “resting.”  I grabbed some of my blue fabric, and set up an ocean, grabbed a few of their Imaginenext figures* (I grabbed Castle figures, but looks like they’re not a set anymore).

What do you think, will this get me a few minutes of time alone?

playing with our Mayflower craft

Looks like the answer is yes.

 

Want some more Pilgrim history to go with your Mayflower craft?

While I haven’t written a lot about Thanksgiving, I’ve got a few great bits about what happened to the Pilgrims after they got off the Mayflower.

 

  • The LEGO history of Thanksgiving
  • Homeschool Thanksgiving

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Comments

  1. MaryAnne says

    June 3, 2011 at 10:50 am

    LOVE the Mayflower ships! And great idea on setting up the playscape!

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  2. Laura@OutnumberedMom says

    June 3, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    We LOVED Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. In fact, we loved anything Charlie Brown. There's a whole holiday pack! Love your header, with your little superguys and your daughter.

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  3. Christy says

    June 3, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    We own all of the Charlie Brown holiday movies – love them!

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  4. Stef Layton says

    June 3, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    wow – THAT rocks !! so much fun – it would get me 30 minutes alone time for sure!!

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  5. alljoinin says

    June 3, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    Have put a link to your blog onto my new blog https://allplayonsunday.blogspot.com/

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  6. The girl who painted trees says

    June 3, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    Great idea for a playscape.

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  7. Kelly says

    June 4, 2011 at 1:33 am

    You certainly made this lesson fun! It's funny how kids still enjoy Charlie Brown. I like your playscape too.
    Little Wonders' Days

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  8. Jill says

    June 4, 2011 at 1:58 am

    Getting ready to have “Fun in the Summer Sun”….thought I'd stop by and visit ~~ and follow! 😉 Love your blog!

    Reply
  9. Debbie says

    June 4, 2011 at 4:39 am

    I love the Mayflowers and the lighthouses! We start with the pilgrims next year in our history, I am looking forward to it.

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  10. Elise says

    June 4, 2011 at 6:26 am

    Gotta love an idea that you set up during rest time and it is a hit with the kids.

    Reply

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