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Posted: June 13 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged Quote pumpkinmom
for American history. My boys have requested hands on stuff. We used History Pockets for Ancient Egypt last year and it was a flop. He said it was too much cutting and pasting and writing. I can't find any books at our library and the only other resources I have on hand suggest dress-up (don't have the clothes for this), cooking foods from the time (I hate to cook more than I have too) or drawing (my oldest hates drawing). Any suggestions?

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I know you said you dislike cooking, but my kids have really loved "history lunches" -- we've done Stone Age lunch (stewed fruit, nuts, beef jerky), a Greek Symposium, a Roman lunch . . . We've also tried making meals based on the Little House books. If you don't think of it as making something extra -- just using a mealtime you have to prepare for anyway as a learning time, and involving your kids in the planning and prep -- maybe it wouldn't seem like such a burden.

Otherwise . . . dioramas? Model villages?

Also, the Safari company, which makes those "Toobs" of plastic figures, has at least one American-History "Toob" (Jamestown settlers). You might pair living books from a given period with a playset of figures, set up and available for free play as a response to your reading.

And you can turn the question back to your boys: when they ask for hands-on activities, what do they have in mind?

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How about some colonial games?

One of my soma made a beautifully illustrated Nine Mans Morris game on poster board. It was so wonderful that we covered it with contact paper and still use it as a board game!

Here are more ideas. For games, scroll down a bit.
We have made butter and everyone loved doing that-not too much cooking, really.

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Ooh, those games are cool! I'll have to bookmark that for this year's new-world history track!

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The figures are a great idea for my boys!

Thanks for the links too!

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