Books with title Colonial American Crafts

Europeans came to the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s in search of a better life. They worked hard and built farms, homes, and towns. But they were still under Great Britain's rule. Many wanted to make their own laws, but that meant going to war against a rich and powerful country. Will you: Travel to Virginia as an indentured servant? Choose between careers as a sailor or a soldier in Massachusetts? Decide which side you'll take as the country marches closer to revolution?

Bobbie Kalman's acclaimed Historic Communities Series provides a close-up view of how people lived more than two hundred years ago. Colorful photos, many taken by Bobbie Kalman herself at restored historic villages across the country, help support the fascinating information. Children will have fun learning about: -- early homes and the settler community-- what people wore and the crafts they made-- how settlers made their living-- how they spent their leisure time-- the values, customs, and traditions of the early settlersColonial Crafts introduces young readers to the craftspeople who created useful works of art by hand, many of which have lasted more than two hundred years. Children will find out how the artisans learned their trades through many years of apprenticeship, as their masters did before them.Visit the workshops of: -- the wheelwright-- the cooper-- the founder-- the shoemaker-- the milliner-- the gunsmith

Plays are the perfect way to show the “story” in history. The five original plays in this collection cover key topics in colonial American history including Jamestown, the first Thanksgiving, triangular trade, the Salem witch trials, and daily life in the French, Spanish, and English colonies. Each play is paired with creative cross-curricular activities, literature and Web links, and background information. For use with Grades 4-8.

If you grew up in colonial America, making your bed would mean more than just tucking in the sheets and pulling up the spread. You d have to gather hay to stuff a straw-tick mattress and pluck a goose for a cozy down quilt. Colonial kids whittled pegs, spun thread, churned butter, and even cooked up their own soap in big iron kettles. Between chores, they learned the alphabet from hornbooks they wore around their necks. Yet no matter how hard they worked, they still had time for a game of blindman s bluff or king of the hill. How did they do all this? Maybe they took a tip from the mysterious Poor Richard, who said, Have you something to do tomorrow? Do it today. Meet Hopewell of Bayberry Cove and many other children of the American colonies. (And find out who Poor Richard really was!)

This reference will help users understand the people of Colonial America with 60 full-length biographical sketches of both well-known figures and lesser-known figures. Many of the entries contain short biographies of people who are in some way connected with the main biographee. Also included are sidebars of related information; a Further Research section; a Words to Know| section; a cumulative subject index; and approximately 120 photographs.|PIM|31-MAY-18|01