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Tepee Craft

By Shaunna Evans 5 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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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.

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

Thanksgiving Craft

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.

Paper Plate Tepee Craft for Kids

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

Tepee Preschool Craft

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.

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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.

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  1. Amy Brobst

    July 30, 2018 at 2:00 pm

    Teepees are a fun craft to make when studying the Plains Indians (Lakota Sioux, and Cheyenne), but please remember that the Native Americans that the people of the Mayflower met were most likely Malecite or Passamaquoddy tribes, and they were part of the Iroquois, so they used Longhouses for their homes and communal spaces.

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  2. Nicole (Mama to 4 Blessings)

    November 16, 2012 at 8:20 am

    what fun! I actually have the tepee on my list to make next week! Have a Happy Thanksgiving – feel free to link this post up @ Link & Learn http://mamato3blessings.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-activitysensory-box-learn.html#

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    • Shaunna

      November 16, 2012 at 2:40 pm

      Thanks so much! It was super easy, but the kids have really enjoyed using it this week. I linked up 🙂 Thanks for hosting.

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  3. JDaniel4's Mom

    November 16, 2012 at 7:41 am

    This is so cute! I love the drawings!

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    • Shaunna

      November 16, 2012 at 2:42 pm

      Thanks! They did a good job…they had fun practicing making zig-zags.

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