Tag: colonial America
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Mayflower craft Thanksgiving lesson
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 (affiliate link, there are several more in here) I remember seeing this as a little kid and…
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Historical Thanksgiving picture books
Okay, this booklist came from an amusing source, as I was working on our Massachusetts unit I was finding all of these historical Thanksgiving picture books, so many that I had to severely limit what I picked up for our unit and I thought, “I should actually make a historical Thanksgiving picture book list, it…
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Try your hand at leatherworking!
If you were to sit down and start listing historical trades, you’d probably say farmer, blacksmith, and then sit for a few minutes and come up with a tailor or maybe butcher. It fascinates me the number of trades common in “ye olde times” and absolutely necessary that we don’t think of as a trade…
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Colonial America: natural dyes
When we last visited Colonial Williamsburg I spent a good hour talking with the weavers about natural dyes. She laughed and said, “Oh yes, we got all the crunchy granola types who come in and claim to know all about natural dyes. Then they go on to list fruits and vegetables. When you’re struggling to…
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Candlemaking lesson
I love to watch historical movies. And depending on the quality of the movie, my family enjoys watching them with me. I may object loudly to bad history, costumes, and well I may not be the best person to go watch it with. One thing my husband and I often joke about are the sheer…