Tepee Craft

As I mentioned in my last post we are talking about the story of Thanksgiving this week. Each day we are learning a little more about the story and adding a few more beads to our story bracelets.

When we discussed the Native Americans the kids liked exploring the Wampanoag portion of the Interactive Exploration of the First Thanksgiving. We also watched a couple of YouTube videos to see how to build a tepee (tipi, teepee…whichever way you prefer to spell it).  Then we made this very simple tepee craft.

GET A FULL WEEK OF THANKSGIVING THEME ACTIVITIES IN OUR PRINTABLE PRESCHOOL LESSON PLANS.

After I cut a paper plate in half, the kids colored and decorated one side.

We taped a couple of sticks on the inside. Then we curled the ends of the paper plate together and stapled it to form the tepee.

After we made this easy Mayflower craft we added our tepees to the water play scene for more pretend play and science inquiry.

These are turning out to be a great prop for dramatic play this week. The kids are using their mini-Mayflowers and the tepees to act out different parts of the Thanksgiving story. This paper towel tube canoe may be the next craft we add to our studies.

GET A FULL SET OF THANKSGIVING THEME ACTIVITIES

The 159-page Thanksgiving Lesson Plan Set includes hands-on activities and these additional printables:

1) Pumpkin Pie Letter Matching (in color and b/w)

2) Rhyming Turkey Game

3) Turkey Color Sorting Mats (in color and b/w)

4) Turkey Counting Mats 1-20 (in color and b/w)

5) Look at the Turkey Emergent Reader (3 variations)

6) How to Make a Pumpkin Pie Sequencing Cards (in color and b/w)

7) 0-35 Turkey Number Cards (4 variations)

8) Phoneme Segmentation Turkey Activity

9) Thanksgiving Taste Test Recording Sheet (in color and b/w)

10) Thanksgiving Picture-Word Cards (in color and b/w)

11) Thanksgiving Roll and Graph (2 variations, in color and b/w)

Also available on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Hands-On Holidays eBook

Less stress, more connecting this holiday season? Yes, PLEASE!

From the arrival of fall to Halloween to Thanksgiving and Christmas, the last four months of the year can be a wonderful opportunity for making family memories and spending time together, but they can also be stressful as we try to collect ideas, recipes, and activities to try together.

Stephanie Morgan, founder of Modern Parents Messy Kids, a site that’s been voted Best Craft Blog in Parents Magazine and one of babble.com’s Top 50 Craft Mom Blogs, recently released a new eBook to help us have a little less stress and more time to connect with family this year.

Stephanie’s goal is to make it easier on all of us to enjoy the holidays with our kids. Hands-On Holidays is 100 pages full of her family’s very favorite ways to connect as a family over the holiday season. I love the convenience of having so many ideas in one place, and most of them are simple enough for even my toddler to participate in.

The book includes picture book suggestions, DIY decor, activities, and treats. Bonus sections also offer even more ideas to enjoy. Click here to view more details.