10 gifts to inspire a love of history in your daughter

In case you can’t tell I love history.  I love to teach our homeschool history lessons and drag my kids to museums.  They don’t get much choice, but to be involved.  But, history doesn’t have to be boring.  These history inspired presents will get your daughter excited about history.

 

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In no particular order I give you

History presents for a girl

 

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1.  Little House on the Prarie Doll

Princess just got this doll a few weeks ago (I received her to review) and she’s a big hit.  Upon opening her, she said, “She looks just like me.  She has brown hair, blue eyes, and FRECKLES!”  She was very excited about the freckles.  The doll hasn’t left her side for the past week or so, and it’s made me happy.  Side note, I love how sturdy this doll is.  We’ve got an official American Girl doll and it is NOT as sturdy as this one is. (I’ve got a giveaway of her down at the bottom)

 

2.  Historical doll clothes

This present only works if you can sew.  You can get patterns for all of the original American Girl dolls and sew them yourself.  If you can’t sew yourself, Queen’s Treasures also has some cute clothes for the mid-1800s.  There’s some on Amazon* for other time periods, but it’s very random what you can find.

 

3.  Pioneer cap*

This can be the basis for all manner of pretend play and frequently shows up in our house.

4.  American Girl Doll Movies*

These four movies are our favorites.  I don’t particularly like the Girl of the Year movies, but these I will happily watch with Princess over and over again. Bonus, my boys will watch these movies with us.

 

5.  Penny whistle*

Quite a few historical novels refer to penny whistles, and when I went to Colonial Williamsburg as a kid, I quite proudly bought a penny whistle like this one.

 

6.  Quill pen*

I bought this for myself on the trip I was pregnant with Princess.  Since then she has regularly absconded with my set to write with it.  To complete that set you might also get some sealing wax.

7.  History board games

Okay, my daughter wouldn’t like these, because she hates board games, but I would have loved them.

 

8.  Dear America books*

I LOVE these books, and have about 20 or so of them between the girls’ and boys’ series.

 

9. Lincoln Logs*

Why not spend some time creating your own world to play in?  Let them build and imagine their own little world.

 

10. Colonial Costume*

While I made Princess’ costume when we headed to Williamsburg this time, I recognize not everyone wants to do that.  There’s some really fun costumes from 1700 on you can get.  Anything before that for kids’ costumes tends to be “Disney princess inspired” and offends my sensibilities for the purposes of historical costuming.  For sheer dress up, go for it (I will confess, this one barely passes the test for me, it borders on fiction as well).

 

 

I’m also joining up with the ladies from iHomeschool Network for even more Gift giving ideas!