Pioneer Town

I thought I'd share with you a fun activity that we did yesterday while it was pouring down rain and gloomy all day.  We're currently studying the Frontiersmen Unit in our Konos Vol.I.  I found a website that has printable templates that you can assemble to make your own pioneer town.  At first I looked at it and thought that my kids wouldn't be interested in it, and that I'd just be wasting paper if I printed it out because they wouldn't want to do it.  But, for lack of anything else to do on a rainy day, I went ahead and printed them out onto cardstock and showed the kids how to color and cut the buildings out, then fold and glue them together.  You would have thought it was Christmas around here with all the excitement!  They colored and cut and glued for at least an hour.  Then they spent at least another hour setting up their little town, making roads and other scenery to go along with it.  I helped them make a little paper covered wagon.  Then they gathered little toy horses and people and had a whole make-believe village! 

I took some pictures because I thought it was so cute and I wanted to remember this fun afternoon forever.

Click on the title to this post to visit the pioneer town website and print off templates for your own little town!  It's a load of fun!

11:34 AM - Oct. 17, 2006 - post comment

Pioneer link

Bev, thanks so much for posting this and the link to the templates. We are taking today off from school but I think we're going to build a pioneer town tomorrow instead of the topographical map. Hopefully you'll get to go on one of our field trips soon so we can meet you in person.

By the way, you have some beautiful kids too! :)

Hugs,
Amanda Mosley

Anonymous - 3:38 PM - Oct. 18, 2006

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Wow!

That is so neat! I'm so glad I stopped by your blog today, I love finding resources like this! Thanks so much for sharing,
have a good one,
ali

dawilli - 5:59 PM - Oct. 18, 2006

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