A-Z of Hands on History Day 3

 

K is for Knights, what is a study of history without some knights

• Make a cardboard castle for your knights to live in with the Imagination Tree
• Make milk jug armor with Layers of Learning, no it won’t really protect you, but it’ll look cool!
• make swords to go with your armor
• Go to a Renaissance Festival and see Knights in real life!
• host a knight adventure party
• make a knight lapbook
• learn about the Tudors with All Things Beautiful
• Learn about the Norman Conquest with All Things Beautiful
• And about knights in general with All Things Beautiful
• learn about Celts, who were in the same time period with Angellicwags, I had to throw her in here like this because they’re ABOUT to study knights………
• Make a paper bag knight helmet for a quick round of play with Rainy Day Mum
• Make a cardboard shield with Rainy Day Mum

 

L is for Liberty, Sons of

• coloring pages for the Boston Tea Party
• Sam Adams, a Son of Liberty
• learn about the Tea Party
• Lexington and Concord, which is a side effect of all their plans
• which was made possible by Paul Revere’s famous ride

 

M is to Map It Out

• I have a lot of geography ideas on pinterest: general geography, geography: state studies, and geography: country studies; but here’s some ideas to get you started
• Learn about geography with this great book.
• Make a salt dough map, anyone else remember this project from school?
• Make a “Me on the Map book” Or this one from Living Life Intentionally
• Milk and Cookies has a guide to the Ultimate Homeschool Geography
• Make a town guide
• Here’s some country studies: Peru, South America (continent, duh), Brazil, China
• Here’s some state studies: Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arkansas and Michigan, Delaware
• How to plan a 50 state study
• 50 states snacks party
• From Sea to Shining Sea
• Glittering Muffins also has several different series to help learn geography

 

N is for Native Americans

• make a tee-pee to act out your history from Frugal Fun 4 Boys
• Learn about Kaya, the American Girl Doll with Creekside Learning (Princess will LOVE this!)
• Make a Dreamcatcher with Crystal’s Tiny Treasures
• Make a canoe, the perfect size for a Lego guy; I think this could also be great for Lewis and Clark
• Make a sweat lodge, today you’d pay a lot of money to go in one of those for “health reasons”
• make Bannock, a traditional dish
• compilation of several projects over at All Things Beautiful
• make a map of where all the tribes were

 

O is for Orbit, the moon race

• make your own space rocket with the Nurture Store
• Learn about things orbiting our world as a result of the Space Race with Creekside Learning
• Make an edible Mars Rock (or it could be a moon rock) with the Fairy and the Frog
• 35 Space Based Ideas to Celebrate the Mars Landing, can easily be adapted to learning about the moon and trying to get there ahead of Russia
• Space Race video and article, I’m going to need to come back here when we reach this point in a few months
• Star Trek!  Because it came out of the Space Race and our determination to reach the moon
• Space Race website, they have SOOOOOO much information, you can spend hours there

 

Get more generic space ideas from my Astronomy pinterest board

 

Follow along on this Hands on History lesson series and read more

• A-E Athens…….
• F-J Founding Fathers……..
• K-O Kings…… You are here
• P-T Pantheon………
• U-Z US history…………

Now check out some of the other ideas in this hop:

• After School Activities from The Educators Spin On It
• Hands-on History from Adventures in Mommydom
• Home Daycare or Family Child Card from My Buddies and I
• Montessori from Living Montessori Now
• Thrifty Teaching Tools from Kindergarten & Preschool for Parents & Teachers