Wigwam craft for kids

We have reached a milestone folks!! Week 10!!! Yayyy:) How many weeks are there? 34? We have covered so much in these 10 weeks together. To start our week, since it is now November, we made …

Homeschooling my children this year has created an amazing opportunity for me to bring fun into learning about American History in ways that isn't possible in a traditional public school. For instance, in our first

how to build a Wigwam. i had to make one three years ago in fifth grade and i used a cut in half hollowed out styrofoam ball. i wish i had found this first

We've been reading Charlotte and David Yue's The Wigwam and the Longhouse this week, and it's been spawning quite a bit of creative play - fire pits... ...and Indian camps in the backyard, and that sort of thing. The Yue's, while leaning pretty heavily in the direction of the "noble savage" in their depiction of the eastern Native American tribes, do a fantastic job presenting the details of their daily life gone by in a way that makes it seem very real, and appealing. We will definitely be…

wigwam craft We did this today. glue sticks are much better than white glue.Kids liked it.

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asy kids' wigwam craft! This Native American craft for kids would be a great Thanksgiving craft or would pair nicely in a unit about early American history.

I'm sharing how to make a wigwam craft for a fun Native American Study. This wigwam craft is simple and can be done mostly independently by your preschooler or kindergartener. But this craft will give them an understanding of how the house was built and what it looked like. And learn a bit about the Powhatan Tribe of Eastern Virginia. Some of the other tribes which built wigwams were the Winnebago, Kickapoo, Wampanoag, Pequot, Sauk, Fox, Abenaki, Shawnee, Ojibwe and Oto.