Colonial crafts

This guide shares 33 fun colonial kids activities (Colonial themed activities) including colonial games, colonial costumes, colonial food and colonial crafts.

Colonial Life After the Mayflower Voyage & Fun and Simple Candle New England Craft. We're learning about life during colonial times and making a New England craft. Besides, life after the voyage of the Mayflower was not easy.

The fifth graders loved Buzz Saw and Ten-and-Four, but they liked the other toys and games from Colonial America even more. They recognized Button-and-Cup right away, as it is very similar to the kendama toys that are so popular now. --------- Button-and-Cup Toy Materials: egg carton scissors craft stick yarn (approx. 2 ft) button Steps: 1. Cut a single cup from the egg carton. Carefully poke the scissors through each side of the cup to make a slot for the craft stick. 2. Gently slide the…

Create or Recreate your own history by watching DIY craft videos and tutorials for historical crafts of America. Learn Eighteenth Century beauty techniques. Learn how to explore and document your family’s history. Get out there and create your own history with the Adventure 101 series. Start a blog to document whatever stories you want! Make your own history!

Learned about the founding of the American colonies and then bring them to life by simulating life in the colonial era.

Nine year old Sage hosts a web series featuring Colonial Craft tutorials from the 1700’s. She walks you through step by step how to create various items from colonial days and gives both historic and modern options, in just five minutes!! In addition to the colonial craft tutorial there is always a bite size history lesson and always a lot of humor and fun. Oh and a great homemade colonial dress and hat ;) All supplies are listed on each page with links to purchase. (They are all reasonable…

Colonial Toys for Children- what a great way to teach your children about the days of our country's past.

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…

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.

Bring history to life for middle school students with hands-on American Revolution activities. These are a fun way to add writing and art into history studies.