Adventures in a Messy Life

Hands on learning for active learners

  • Home page
    • Start Here
    • About Us
    • Get all of the posts now!
    • Disclosure and other blogging information
  • Homeschooling
    • Homeschool Curriculum
    • Why I homeschool (comments from a former teacher)
    • Homeschooling and the Holidays
  • History and geography
    • Ancient History Lessons
    • Modern History lessons
    • American History Lessons
    • LEGO history
  • Science
  • Bible Curriculum
  • STORE

Michigan: The Log Cabin Quilt

June 19, 2012 Ticia 4 Comments

012

Jeff’s working late, so I’m having fun working through my backlog of things to write about.

We’ve just had a crazy CRAZY spring, and the summer isn’t looking to calm down.  These are all things done weeks ago.

They’re not super exciting as far as activities go, but the books are so wonderful that I have to share them.

“The Log Cabin Quilt (affiliate link) is about a family that moved to Michigan after their Mom died.  The grandma comes with them, but their Dad is sad.

One winter night he’s gone out hunting and they see he hasn’t gotten back.  It’s cold and they’re sad, and they try something unusual to help with the cold.

One of the major plot points of the book revolves around “chinking the cabin,” chinking is putting bits of mud into the holes between logs.  I loved the chinking activity Phyllis did with her kids, but with less than 15 minutes for our activity, that was not an option.

019

So, we colored in our chinking.  Then we drew how we would decorate our cabin if we were trying to make it feel like home.

Apparently my boys would put random bits of color in their houses.  Actually I think he explained to me it was a tube that would deliver the things he wanted.  He went on to describe the things, and it was a long and bizarre list.

Babies, toys, candy, food, more food, and then some more food.  Apparently my kids are starved, and I never feed them.  And, I’m still wondering about the babies.  His theory was he’d send them back when they started crying.

history Michigan, United States history

Comments

  1. Wonder Mom says

    June 19, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    “Send the babies back when they start crying”…smart boy! :0)

    Reply
  2. Phyllis says

    June 19, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    Sounds like an interesting book. Thank you for the mention. Your boys are creative!

    Reply
  3. Raising a Happy Child says

    June 19, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    The book looks nice! Anna would definitely send crying babies back to their parents 🙂

    Reply
  4. MaryAnne K says

    June 19, 2012 at 4:03 pm

    lol about the babies!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Ticia Adventures in Mommydom Hi, I'm Ticia! This is the adventures of my family in life and learning. Follow along with us as we share our adventures. We're having a lot of fun and learning as we go.

Help!!!! I need to know:

Categories

 book and a movie combo

Copyright © 2023 ·