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Kindergarten Paper Crafts and a Fun Tissue Paper Painting

January 31, 2023 | Leave a Comment
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Kindergarten paper crafts are not just fun but build fine motor skills. Also, grab my other tips, ideas, and crafts for kindergarten on my page Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum.

Kindergarten is such a fun age to teach.

Like little sponges their minds are wide open and soak up all the knowledge that you and the world have to offer them.

It is exciting to introduce them to new art mediums, fresh techniques, and art styles.

Kindergarten Paper Crafts and a Fun Tissue Paper Painting

Watching a budding artist is one of the great joys of this homeschooling life we chose.

Letting them linger over something they are really enjoying and perhaps cutting short those things they don’t.

Simple kindergarten paper crafts are low prep, inexpensive, easy, and can be open ended for countless opportunities to use their imagination.

But first look at these fun must have art supplies.

Kindergarten Art Supplies

9 Must Have Tissue Paper Art Supplies for Kindergarten

Add these supplies to your craft list.

Crayola Ultimate Crayon Box Collection (152ct), Classic & Glitter Crayons

CRAYOLA CRAYON CADDY: Choose from 152 unique crayons, housed in a fun Crayon Storage Caddy.
PORTABLE CRAYON CADDY: Take this bulk crayon collection with you wherever you go with a unique crayon storage caddy that makes carrying your art supplies fun and easy.

Watercolor Paint Set

Various colors: Watercolor paint set, with 48 different bright and beautiful colors, very soluble in water, to meet your strong demand for color.

High Quality Brushes: This watercolor set contains a high quality refillable water brush and a high quality oil painting brush. You can use the brush to describe the details of your paintings.

Bleeding Tissue Assortment

PERFECT FOR ARTISTS: Hygloss bleeding art tissue paper is great for making backgrounds and much more.

ART IN THE CLASSROOM: Teachers love the versatility of bleed art tissue paper for a variety of creative and fun art projects that have texture and color.

GREAT FOR DIY CRAFTS: Crafters love using this bleed tissue paper to enhance their craft projects and exercise their own creativity.

24 Colors Small Block Polymer Clay Starter kit

Best Gift for Kids: Each block weight 0.39 oz (11g), Size: 1.5" x 0.7" x 0.2". Every one was wrapped in a plastic pouch, Total weight: 9.31 oz (264g). Get it to develop your kids imagination and Creativity.

Safety Material: Non-toxic, Eco-friendly, Brightly-Colored Polymer Clay. Strictly Complies with the ASTM D-4236 Standards and Requirements.

WikkiStix Sensory Fidget Toy, Arts and Crafts for Kids

Calming Sensory Fidget Toy: Soft And Pliable

Small Compact Tube With 24 Wikki Stix ! Convenient Take-Along Size For Those Moments Of "Down Time".

Easy And Fun To Use, Wikki Stix: Adhere With Just Fingertip Pressure To Most Smooth Surfaces. No Glue, No Paste, No Mess!

Tru-Ray Construction Paper

Heavyweight 100% vat-dyed sulphite paper is perfect for any arts and crafts project

Durable enough to take scoring, folding and curling without cracking and tearing

Superior fade resistance for brighter, longer-lasting projects

The Arts: A Visual Encyclopedia

The entire history of the greatest works in painting, sculpture, and photography are included on this comprehensive and colourful tour through time.  From the first strokes of paint on prehistoric caves to contemporary street art in the 21st century, every artistic style and movement is explored and explained in stunning detail. Special features celebrate the lives of groundbreaking painters, sculptors, and photographers, from Dutch master Johannes Vermeer to photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron. Many best-loved pieces of art are showcased in iconic images. Marvel at Leonardo da Vinci's mysterious Mona Lisa, the most famous painted lady. March alongside China’s statues of the Terracotta Army, and gaze in awe at Barbara Hepworth's stunning Pelagos sculpture.

Harold and the Purple Crayon

If you want to do a crayon craft with tissue paper how can we leave out this book?

The Day the Crayons Quit

Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Blue crayon needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. Black crayon wants to be used for more than just outlining. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best?

Also, grab some of these other kindergarten homeschool curriculum and crafts ideas.

Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum And Crafts

Finally, look at how to make this tissue painting

For this art activity you can let your child completely free hand their “painting”.

Or encourage your child to make something related to what you are learning, like a rainbow for a weather unit.

How to Tissue Paint

You will need:

Tissue paper
Spray bottle with water
Art Canvas
Masking or painters tape

First, give your canvas a clean edge and make it look like it has been matted for a museum showing.

Tape off a border all the way around the edge with masking tap.

Be sure to press it firmly into the texture of the canvas all the way around.

Cut or tear the tissue paper into small pieces, the more variety of sizes and shapes you have for them the better.

Kids really enjoy tearing the paper up themselves.

Use the spray bottle to spritz canvas with water until it is soaked.

Have your child create their picture by placing the tissue paper onto the wet canvas to form it.

Simple shapes or patterns will obviously be the easiest for them to create.

Remind them to spray the canvas often to keep it wet while they work.

Once they have covered the canvas as much as they like, give it one final spray with the water bottle to soak it again.

Allow the water to dry completely.

Carefully peel off the tissue paper and admire the beautiful color that seeped out of the tissue paper to create their design.

Peel off the tape for a crisp white edge.

Make a Fun and Easy Salt Dough Daniel Boone Wilderness Road Map

January 30, 2023 | Leave a Comment
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Today, we made a fun salt dough Daniel Boone Wilderness Road map. And grab my unit study and on my page Daniel Boone – North American Explorer.

Are you studying US expansion or perhaps specializing in a Daniel Boone Unit Study?

You must include this fun hands-on salt dough map of Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Road.

Salt dough is an easy and forgiving medium to work with for homeschool projects.

It’s perfect to include in any number of studies.

Make a Fun and Easy Salt Dough Daniel Boone Wilderness Road Map

Daniel Boone blazed a trail for the Transylvania Company in 1775 from Fort Chiswell in Virginia through the Cumberland Gap.

It was steep and narrow. And could only be traveled on foot or by horseback.

The Cumberland Gap was a notch in the Appalachian Mountains near the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.

Daniel Boone Wilderness Road Map Facts

The trail was begun on March 10, 1775.
Boone was chosen by The Transylvania Company because he was considered the most experienced and knowledgeable explorer of the area.
Boone and 35 axmen cut the trail from Long Island in Kingsport, Tennessee through the forests and mountains to what is now known as Lexington, Ky.
The Wilderness Road enabled the growth of the first settlements such as Boonsboro, Benjamin Logan’s, and Harrod Town.
It has been estimated that as many as 300,000 settlers traveled the Wilderness Road from 1775 to 1810.
Use of the road began to decline by 1840. The opening of the National Road and water travel like steamboats and ferries became a more popular way to travel.
A segment of Wilderness Road was one of the first roads to be paved in the United States.

A great reference book that you can use is The 50 States.

It is a big colorful book full of images of each state on a two page spread.

It has smaller illustrations of people and places, and lots of great facts and information on each one.

Geography of the Wilderness Road

To add to this study, you could spend a time learning about the states along his route like Kentucky.

And Tennessee

As well as through Virginia.

If you want something for middle and high school, you might opt instead for something like this Merriam Webster Student Atlas.

Creating a salt dough map is a great way to learn specifically about history through Daniel Boone and the Trail he blazed.

Too, it is a great overall geography lesson.

Mixing it up, include some math and learn about animals along the trail and you have science.

Write a little about the trail and you have language arts, and of course your creation is a fantastic art project.

You can just cut out the portion of the US that included the Wilderness Road and surrounding areas, but I like to do the whole map.

Doing this, your child can see where it was in relation to everything else.

Then, look at more Daniel Boone activities.

More Daniel Boone North American Explorer Activities

and add one or two of these fun books.

10 Resources for A Daniel Boone Unit Study

Whether you want to add a hands-on unit study or are looking for a few resources, you'll love one of these.

1. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

Struggle against the Shawnee defenders of Kentucky. Drawing from popular narrative, public record, documentation from Boone's own hand, and recollection gathered by 19th-century antiquarians, the author employs the methods of the new social history to produce a portrait that defines Daniel Boone and the times he helped shape.

2. Who Was Daniel Boone? (Who Was?)

Called the "Great Pathfinder", Daniel Boone is most famous for opening up the West to settlers through Kentucky. A symbol of America's pioneering spirit Boone was a skilled outdoorsman and an avid reader although he never attended school. Sydelle Kramer skillfully recounts Boone's many adventures such as the day he rescued his own daughter from kidnappers.

3. The Dangerous Book for Boys

The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—now a Prime Original Series created by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Greg Mottola (Superbad).

In this digital age, there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes.

4. Willy Whitefeather's Outdoor Survival Handbook for Kids

From treating a bee sting to building an overnight shelter, kids will gain the knowledge and confidence they need to survive outdoors.All ages

5. Daniel Boone: Frontiersman (Heroes of History)

Written for readers age 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!In search of open spaces and land to call his own, Daniel Boone fearlessly led a band of brave settlers into the bountiful Kentucky wilderness. Daniel's expert hunting ability, incredible outdoor survival skills, and courage under fire helped his companions stay alive in a dangerous and unknown land despite threatening encounters with soldiers, Indians, and even other settlers.

6. History Pockets: Explorers of North America, Grades 4-6+

The book includes the following pockets:

Introduction to Explorers of North America
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
Hernando Cortes
Jacques Cartier
Sir Francis Drake
Henry Hudson
Daniel Boone
James Cook
Lewis and Clark
John Wesley Powell

7. Daniel Boone: Trailblazer

Born in Pennsylvania in 1734, Daniel Boone cut a path west, carving his name into trees. Although he endured repeated property losses, he became a household name and was greatly admired for his surveying skills and the many claims he laid, opening the west for further settlement.

8. Survive & Thrive: A Pocket Guide To Wilderness Safety Skills, Plus 16 Quick-Check Skill Cards

Gear up for outdoor adventure, learn to stay alive, and help yourself thrive – feeling confident that you can handle whatever comes your way!

Accidents happen and nature can be unpredictable, which is why this ultra-portable survival kit is a must-have for casual nature explorers and slightly more adventurous campers in need of essential outdoor guidance that they can carry along with them.

9. Bear Grylls The Complete Adventures Collection 12 Books Set

Titles In This Set:The Blizzard ChallengeThe Desert ChallengeThe Jungle ChallengeThe Sea ChallengeThe River ChallengeThe Earthquake ChallengeThe Volcano ChallengeThe Safari ChallengeThe Cave ChallengeThe Mountain ChallengeThe Arctic ChallengeThe Sailing Challenge

10. Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker (Childhood of Famous Americans)

A general account of the life of the prominent American frontiersman who is especially remembered for helping to settle Kentucky

Finally, look at how to create this salt dough map.

Besides just marking the original trail of the Wilderness Road we also continued along in a different color showing the path of the Great Valley Road.

That road is traveled by Native Americans who called it the Great Warriors Path. It started in Pennsylvania and stretched to Boone’s Wilderness Road. It really helps tie the two time periods together.

How to Create Salt Dough Daniel Boone Wilderness Road Map

You will need:

1 cup all-purpose flour
½ cup salt
½ to ¾ cup of water
Paint or markers
2 Printouts of a US Map
Gallon Ziploc bag
Large bowl for mixing
Spatula
Measuring cups
Skewer or toothpick

Print 2 copies of a US map.

Trim the edges down so that it fits in a gallon ziploc.

And then place inside the bag. Using the link above, there is both a labeled and unlabeled map.

Print one of each and set one aside.

Combine flour and salt in a large bowl until mixed well.

Add water a little at a time until you get a playdough consistency.

You do not want your dough to be sticky and wet but neither should it be crumbly.

We need a baby bear porridge situation here… just right.

Knead dough for 2-3 minutes by hand to make sure it is all well combined.

Once you are satisfied with the consistency of your dough you can begin spreading it out all over the map in the bag.

To get a thinner and even thickness roll it out with a rolling pin.

Or just use a smooth jar to make it a quarter inch thick or less.

This will help it dry faster and reduce the risk of mold growing.

Cut away the excess using a craft stick,

If you cut too much it’s very simple to press and pinch the dough to straighten up your edges of the map.

Take your second paper map print out and trace Daniel Boone’s Journey.

We also traced the Mississippi River as a landmark to show that the trail was on the eastern side of it.

Daniel Boone Wilderness Road Map Activity

Lay the map over your salt dough map.

Lining it up as closely as you can.

Then use a skewer or toothpick to trace the trail by poking over the lines into the dough

Remove the paper and deepen your marks a little to give them definition.

Pinch up the dough just a bit along the area where the Appalachian Mountains would be.

Add a little muted paint if you like to give it some more texture.

You can use a marker or paint on a very thin brush to trace the river and the routes.

But paint will allow you to do it right away instead of waiting on your salt dough map to dry.

You can either let your map sit undisturbed to dry or bake at 200 degrees until completely dry.

If you are air drying, flip the map over after 24 hours and let it sit another day.

Continue flipping back and forth until completely dried out.

If you want to preserve your map longer you can give it a couple coats of mod podge or spray it with a couple coats of clear sealer outdoors.

Rocky Mountains Oregon Trail Fun Large Diorama Craft for Kids

January 26, 2023 | Leave a Comment
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Trekking through the Rocky Mountains Oregon Trail was an arduous journey. Too, I have more ideas and activities on my Westward Ho Unit Study and Lapbook.

The Rocky Mountain National Park was established in Colorado on January 26th, 1915.

In honor of this amazing National Park, I thought we would take a virtual trip by creating a miniature section of the Rocky Mountains with a diorama.

And to be more specific, we’re creating it as it might have looked along the Rocky Mountains Oregon Trail section.

Rocky Mountains Oregon Trail Fun Large Diorama Craft for Kids

How exciting and scary a time it must have been.

The Rocky Mountains are distinctive and easily identifiable just by their silhouette but are unique depending on where you are along the western mountain chain.

We were inspired by this amazing drawing of the Cherokee Pass through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. It is by Daniel Jenks from 1859.

And we created this fun and large diorama with just a few different simple items.

But first look at these facts about the Rocky Mountains.

Rocky Mountain Facts

The Rocky Mountains stretch through more than 3000 miles and over 6 states which are New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.
Rocky Mountain is one of the nation’s highest national parks.
There are many indigenous people living in the Rocky Mountains like Bannock, Sioux, Blackfoot, Cow People, Apache, Kutenai, and more.
There is a super volcano in the Rocky Mountains called Yellowstone Caldera. It’s located in the Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
The Rocky Mountain National Park is open all year.
In 1806, the Lewis and Clark Expedition became the first scientific reconnaissance of the Rocky Mountains; they gathered a lot of important information as well as specimens.
There are over 250 different bird species which live in the Rocky Mountain National Park.
The Rocky Mountains are rich with natural resources like gold, silver, copper, tungsten, zinc, molybdenum, and lead.
The Rockies have over 100 separate ranges.
Bighorn sheep are the symbol of Rocky Mountain National Park and there are over 400 residing in the park.

Westward Expansion Resources

Also, add some of these fun books.

10 Westward Expansion Resources

Add in a few books and resources to bring the study of the Oregon Trail to life during the United States expansion of the west.

Your Life as a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail (The Way It Was)

Your Life as a Pioneer on The Oregon Trail, has some funny illustrations and great information for this unit study.

Little House on the Prairie Series 7 Books Collection

Of course ALL the Little House Books are some of the best about pioneer life.

The Ingalls are the most famous pioneers and westward moving families.

Westward Expansion (A True Book: Westward Expansion)

A True Book: Westward Expansion takes readers on an amazing journey to a fascinating time in U.S. history when the country was experiencing dynamic change and expanding westward.

The Oregon Trail 4-Book Paperback Box Set Plus Poster Map

In this boxed set, choose your own trail and complete the journey to Oregon City with all four paperbacks in this exciting series! It's 1850 and your first goal is to get your family, covered wagon full of supplies, and oxen to Chimney Rock on time.

The Oregon Trail: Journey to Willamette Valley Boardgame

It's a race to Willamette Valley as you join the wagon train and seek your fortune in the West!

Apples to Oregon:

Apples, ho! When Papa decides to pull up roots and move from Iowa to Oregon, he can’t bear to leave his precious apple trees behind. Or his peaches, plums, grapes, cherries, and pears. Oh, and he takes his family along too.

Locomotive

It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America’s brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to
ocean

The California Gold Rush and the '49ers

Try your luck, and search for your fortune in California! Follow the joy and heartbreak of the '49ers during the California Gold Rush.

Daily Life in a Covered Wagon

In 1853, the Larkin family loaded up their wagons and headed west in search of a new life. But how did they do it? What did they eat? How did they survive sickness, and attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual object from the past, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon explored what life was really like on the wagon trail.

Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails

Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow Mother, Father, and Baby John as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains in the fertile Sacramento Valley of California. By the creators of Gold Fever.

Additionally, learn about some of the animals which lives in the Rocky Mountains.

Rocky Mountain Animals and Birds

If you were a pioneer heading west through the Rocky Mountain Oregon Trail, what type of wildlife would you see?

This is the perfect next step to create a mini study from this project.

Let your child choose one of the animals that are common to the Rocky Mountains and create a report, write a story, paint a picture, or create a presentation on their chosen animal.

Brown Bears
Coyote
BigHorn Sheep
Black Bear
Mule Deer
Mountain Lion
Gray Wolf
Elk

Also, look at some of the birds.

Yellowthroat
Red Crossbill
Nuthatch
Dipper
Meadowlark
Towhee
Song Sparrow

Additionally, here are more hands-on Westward Expansion Activities.

Hands-on Westward Expansion Activities

Finally, look at how to make this Rocky Mountains Oregon Trail diorama.

Besides the little Safari Ltd. Toob animals you can get everything used in this diorama from Dollar Tree with plenty of supplies left over for future projects.

How to Make a Rocky Mountain Oregon Trail Diorama

You will need:

A foam board
Paper bags
Newspaper
Aluminum foil
Craft paint
Paintbrushes
Blue and green cardstock
Hot glue gun/sticks

Put puddles of brown, gray, and green paints on a paper plate.

Wad up a small piece of newspaper up and dip it in your paints.

Press the newspaper around the foam board as if you were sponge painting.

Cover the foam board with a light coat of the mixed colors to represent the rocks, grass, and earth.

Use a beige paint to create a trail going through the mountains. Set aside to dry while you begin working on the mountains.

Open 3-4 paper bags.

Slip them over your hand/arm one at a time and take the same paints and newspaper and cover all sides and the top of the bag.

Rocky Mountain Oregon Trail Diorama

You can leave some spots bare as the brown from the bag will blend in as earth.

Slip over a jar or something and allow it to dry completely.

Stuff the bags loosely with newspaper and foil as you like but not so full that you can’t “mold” it.

You just want them to give your bag some structure.

Twist and mold the bags to create the sharper angles and peaks of the Rocky Mountains silhouette.

Hot glue the base of the mountain along the back of your base board to secure into place.

Pinch and shape the mountains as needed to fix them up.

To create a water feature at the base of the mountain, tear up some blue paper in whatever shape you like and glue down.

Cut a bunch of green triangles of different sizes then make little cuts on each side to make pine trees.

Fold ⅛” piece of the bottom over and then glue them onto the board with the largest in front and the smallest closest to the mountains.

This creates some perspective.

Create the snow peaked caps by drizzling paint on the top and brush lightly just a little down the sides.

Finally, add some of the wildlife you would see traveling through the Rocky Mountains.

This North American Wildlife Safari Toob provided the bulk of the animals used here.

What Did Daniel Boone Wear And Easy Fringe Shirt Activity for Kids

January 25, 2023 | Leave a Comment
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Studying about American Frontiersman Daniel Boone is fascinating and if your child is wondering what did Daniel Boone wear, you’ll love todays activity. And grab my unit study and on my page Daniel Boone – North American Explorer.

I will share a super easy tutorial with you to make Daniel Boone’s famous fringed shirt that is perfect for a costume to use for a history project, co-op or fieldtrip.

Also, Daniel Boone was a skilled hunter, a trapper, and a trailblazer.

What Did Daniel Boone Wear And Easy Fringe Shirt Activity for Kids

He is often shown in illustrations wearing a coon skin cap, but the truth is that he did not wear one.

He instead preferred a felt or beaver hat with a wide brim similar to what the Quakers of his home in Pennsylvania would have worn.

About Frontier Clothing

For traveling he would have worn buckskin leggings and a loose-fitting shirt made of animal skin.

Buckskins were made from deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans. They became popular with mountain men and frontiersmen due to their warmth and durability.

Fur was of course a very popular material because every part of the animals that were hunted were used, and it also helped keep them warm.

He would also have worn a leather belt with a hunting knife, a hatchet, a powder horn, and a bullet pouch attached to it.

He probably wore moccasins or moccasin boots while traveling through the wilderness.

Additionally, homespun clothing on the frontier was mostly wool or linen.

Rough cotton was mixed with wool to create a blend known as linsey-woolsey.

Homespun dyes were natural and made from items such as berries, nut shells, tree bark, and flowers.

Look at this post Pioneer Living and Cloth Dyeing (Hands-on History).

Clothing from the American frontier was completely hand woven and hand stitched.

Unfortunately, we do not have many clothing artifacts from this period because life was generally rough on fabrics.

And what was still usable was recycled into quilts and other things.

Then, look at some of these books and resources below.

Books About Daniel Boone & His Life

10 Resources for A Daniel Boone Unit Study

Whether you want to add a hands-on unit study or are looking for a few resources, you'll love one of these.

1. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer

2. Who Was Daniel Boone? (Who Was?)

3. The Dangerous Book for Boys

4. Willy Whitefeather's Outdoor Survival Handbook for Kids

From treating a bee sting to building an overnight shelter, kids will gain the knowledge and confidence they need to survive outdoors.All ages

5. Daniel Boone: Frontiersman (Heroes of History)

6. History Pockets: Explorers of North America, Grades 4-6+

The book includes the following pockets:

Introduction to Explorers of North America
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
Hernando Cortes
Jacques Cartier
Sir Francis Drake
Henry Hudson
Daniel Boone
James Cook
Lewis and Clark
John Wesley Powell

7. Daniel Boone: Trailblazer

8. Survive & Thrive: A Pocket Guide To Wilderness Safety Skills, Plus 16 Quick-Check Skill Cards

Gear up for outdoor adventure, learn to stay alive, and help yourself thrive – feeling confident that you can handle whatever comes your way!

9. Bear Grylls The Complete Adventures Collection 12 Books Set

10. Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker (Childhood of Famous Americans)

A general account of the life of the prominent American frontiersman who is especially remembered for helping to settle Kentucky

Next, add in some fun hands-on activities.

More Daniel Boone North American Explorer Activities

Finally, make an easy no sew fringed Shirt

How to Make a No Sew Fringed Shirt

You will need:

A cream colored, oatmeal colored, or white long sleeve t shirt
1 square of cream 9×12” colored felt
Twine or string or leather shoe lace
Hot glue gun/glue sticks
Fabric scissors
strongly prepared coffee or tea

If you need to dye a white shirt you will also need – a large bowl, hot water, strongly prepared coffee, or tea.

When I was ready to create this project, I could not find a simple cream or oatmeal colored shirt to mimic the buckskin color of what Daniel Boone would have worn.

So, I simply dyed my own.

To do this I poured about 6-8 cups of hot water into a large bowl and then added about a half a pot of strong coffee and stirred well.

Dunk your shirt and flip it several times to be sure it is entirely saturated. Allow it to sit in the coffee for 20 minutes.

Rinse and squeeze out excess water.

Toss into the dryer on high for about 20 minutes to set the stain.

Wash and dry as needed after that prior to wearing.

Obviously if you found one you can skip these steps for dyeing it.

Fold over a 9×12” piece of felt lengthwise.

Measure ⅓” to ¼” of an inch down from the fold and mark lightly with a pencil.

Cut ¼” strips up from the bottom through both pieces of fabric right up to your marked line.

Continue all the way across.

Cut felt on the folded line and then cut one of the strips in half.

Spread the shirt out flat and find the center.

Apply hot glue to the back of your longer piece of fringe and press down in the center approximately 4” down from the collar.

Fasten your shorter pieces on either side of the long piece and across the arms with hot glue.

Allow hot glue to dry and harden.

Cut a 2” slit in the neck with 2-3 small holes on either side.

Lace string or twine through the holes to finish it off.

George Washington Carver Fun Peanut Quick Unit Study & Notebooking Pages

January 24, 2023 | Leave a Comment
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George Washington Carver study makes for a fun peanut unit study. Also, you love my Gardening Projects For Homeschool Easy Composting With the Amazing Dr. George Carver (Free Printable About Compost and my page Best Homeschool Unit Studies.

Besides, National Peanut Butter Day is January 24^th and I have some fun ideas to learn about peanuts and peanut butter.

George Washington Carver Fun Peanut Quick Unit Study & Notebooking Pages

We are celebrating it by making a batch of easy 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies and enjoying a mini peanut unit study.

Learn about the process, the people, and fun facts about the peanut while you enjoy peanutty treats.

Peanuts are versatile and used in much more than just peanut butter.

First, you’ll love some of these fun peanut facts.

For example, Jimmy Carter, our 39th president, came from humble roots in Plains, Georgia.

He took over his father’s peanut farm prior to becoming president.

Jimmy Carter sold peanuts on the streets at just 5 years old, peanuts are in his blood.

Too, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States was a peanut farmer and a botanist.

He is credited with the boost to the peanut’s popularity as he was the first American president to grow peanuts. He was famed for his other amazing garden treasures at Monticello.

More Peanut Facts

There are four different types of peanuts – Runner, Valencia, Spanish and Virginia.
It takes roughly 540 peanuts to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
There have been two peanut farmers to have been elected president of the USA – Thomas Jefferson from Virginia and Jimmy Carter from Georgia,
Peanuts are not actually “nuts” they are classified as legumes, related to beans.
There are 6 different cities in the United States named Peanut:

Peanut, California
Lower Peanut- Pennsylvania
Upper Peanut, Pennsylvania
Peanut, Pennsylvania
Peanut, Tennessee
Peanut West Virginia

“Goober” is a nickname for peanuts.
The highest peanut producing states are: Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. Do you live in one of these peanut rich states?
It is believed that the peanut plant probably originated in Brazil or Peru.

Then, learn about the science of peanuts.

And I have some notebooking pages for you too.

A Pea or a Nut?

First, Argentina, Brazil, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Sudan are major peanut-growing countries.

However, the peanut is not really a nut such as a pecan or walnut but are the seeds of the peanut plant.

As the plant grows, it puts forth yellow flowers that pollinate themselves.

Additionally, the peanut is a legume—a member of the pea family.

And peanuts do not grow on trees, but they grow on low bushes.

They produce their fruit underground.

Next, learn about Dr. George Washington Carver.

About George Washington Carver

Carver was born in 1861 near Diamond Grove, Missouri and died January 5, 1943 in Tuskegee. Alabama.

Carver was the son of a slave owned by Moses Carver. He was separated from his mother at a young age. He taught himself using books and learned from his experiences.

During this time, he supported himself by various jobs, including hotel cook, laundry man, farm laborer, and other odd jobs.

And he was an American agricultural chemist. He experimented with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.

One of the most well-known things he did was to help teach people of the South to care for their soil.

A lot of farmers grew cotton, and the dreaded cotton boll weevil would devastate their crop.

He suggested peanuts as a source of income in place of cotton. But also, because it enriched the soil.

Also, he spent most of his career teaching and conducting research at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.

Thereafter, in 1903 George Washington Carver had begun research into new uses for the peanut plant.

He eventually developed more than 300 products from it.

Look at this site List of Products made from the Peanut By Dr. George Washington Carver.

In addition, add some of these books to your study.

Learning About Peanuts Resources

Add in some fun facts about the history of peanuts and some fun books for a quick unit study.

The Life and Times of the Peanut

What are peanuts - are they peas or are they nuts? Do they grow above or below ground? Who invented peanut butter? In the same spirit as his award-winning Life and Times of the Honeybee, Charles Micucci explores one of America's most favorite and enigmatic snack foods. This fascinating picture book, with its concise, detailed text and abundant illustrations, ranging from the humorous to the scientific, offers a spirited introduction to the life cycle, many uses, and historical influences of the peanut.

Food Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of Our Edible World

Get your recommended daily allowance of facts and fun with Food Anatomy, the third book in Julia Rothman’s best-selling Anatomy series. She starts with an illustrated history of food and ends with a global tour of street eats

Who Was George Washington Carver?

Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better. His work with vegetables, especially peanuts, made him famous and changed agriculture forever.

Who Is Jimmy Carter?

How did a peanut farmer from a small town in Georgia become the 39th President of the United States? Find out in this addition to the #1 New York Times best-selling Who Was? series!Everyone was rather surprised when small-town farmer Jimmy Carter first announced that he’d be running for president in 1976. When Jimmy told his mother, she replied, “President of what?” But this former naval officer and governor of Georgia was ready for the role.

Hands-On Peanut and Peanut Butter Activities

Next, try a few hands-on activities to make the learning more fun and memorable.

Gardening Projects For Homeschool Easy Composting With the Amazing Dr. George Carver.
Learn How to Make Your Own Peanut Butter.
How to Make Edible Peanut Butter Playdough.
Use shelled peanuts as counters for simple addition and subtraction, or skip counting.
Make this super cute George Washington Carver Paper Plate Peanut Craft.
Grow your own peanuts with these Peanut Seeds.
Make a winter nature craft: How to Make Easy DIY Bird Feeders.
Have a peanut taste test. Try them in every form you can- in the shell, as peanut butter, honey roasted or other flavors, in cookies, peanut brittle, or peanut candies.

Too, here are some videos to add to your quick study.

Videos about Peanuts

Add these YouTube videos.

Check out Food Network’s Unwrapped- How Peanut Butter is Made to learn about the process of creating the base for one of America’s favorite sandwiches.
Watch How Peanuts Are Made to learn how peanuts are processed and packaged for sale.
Follow the Story of George Washington Carver with the Sci Kids to learn about the important contributions he made to agriculture and society.
Learn the Top 10 Health Benefits of Peanuts.

Further, let’s make some easy delicious peanut butter cookies.

Easy 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup creamy or crunchy peanut butter
¾ cup granulated sugar
1 large egg

You will also need:

Bowl and hand mixer or stand mixer.
Baking sheet

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Place peanut butter, eggs, and sugar in a mixer bowl and mix until well combined.

Roll the mixture into ping pong sized balls in your hand.

Place balls on a cookie sheet.

Smash each one down with a fork.

Sprinkle cookies lightly with additional sugar.

Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.

Allow to cool for 2-3 minutes then move to a cooling rack.

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