Does hands-on history cause you heartache? How many times have you purchased a wonderful-looking history curriculum or activity guide, only to find yourself defeated by supplies that were expensive, hard-to-find, or just plain burdensome? Let Hands and Hearts History Discovery Kits do the hard work. Each kit combines interesting, significant hands-on art, language, math, science, and cultural projects with our exclusive Bible Truths Memory Cards and ready-to-use notebook pages. Best of all, absolutely everything you need to do the projects is right in the box!
With our Westward Expansion Discovery Kit, your child will:
Make and play with a pokean: This Indian version of hackysack is easy to make and fun to play!
Craft a cornhusk doll: Your child can make an all-natural girl or boy cornhusk doll while learning about toys on the frontier.
Create a real leather pouch: This beautiful fringed leather pouch project is ready for your child to stitch up with sinew and a harness needle.
Work in a handmade copybook: Your child will create and hand-stitch a period-correct copybook, then do his lessons with a feather pen and ink that he makes himself. We include a reproduction of a page of an 18th century child's copybook.
Play the hand game: This game is fast and simple to play, and children love it!
Break Jefferson's code: Thomas Jefferson used a secret code to communicate with Lewis and Clark. Your child will learn to break the code and decode some important messages of our own!
Construct a solid wood Jacob's Ladder: This old-fashioned toy holds as much appeal today as it did hundreds of years ago.
String a hand-carved buffalo horn whistle: These exquisite black horn whistles are a true relic from the past. Your child will string his own whistle and learn how it might have been used on the western frontier.
Play marbles: We include old-fashioned glass marbles and enough game variations to satisfy children of all ages
Pan for gold: You can't study about westward expansion without learning about the gold rush! We include a metal panning pan, two bags of seeded sand and gravel mix, and clear instructions. The sand and gravel mix is seeded with bits of gold-colored metal so your child doesn't have to risk losing any gold while panning, but to keep the experience real, we also include a glass vial full of real gold!! We could hardly get our testers to stop panning - this is truly an A+ project!
Make a unique buffalo tooth necklace: We provide the real buffalo teeth, authentic glass crow beads, and the black cord - your child provides the creativity.
Learn about the importance of trade on the frontier: You and your child will be fascinated by our section on types of trade - trade beads, the beaver trade, and agricultural trades. We include a copy of an actual 18th century estate inventory, trading and valuing information, and several word problem challenges that simulate actual trade conditions.
Create a wonderful keepsake notebook: We include a packet of reproducible notebook pages, information on notebooking, and specific notebooking suggestions.
Learn timeless language lessons: Our copywork section draws from classic sources such as The New England Primer, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, and more
Study the geography of western expansion: Our Westward Expansion Discovery Kit includes maps from Knowledge Quest, Inc., and comprehensive, easy-to-implement lesson plans co-authored by Terri Johnson of Knowledge Quest, Inc. and Kate Estes of Hands and Hearts.
Hide God's Word in his heart: Our exclusive Bible Truths Cards will help your child discern important Bible truths drawn from the KJV and the New England Primer.
This kit includes a comprehensive instruction manual containing full background information for every project, and clear step-by-step illustrated instructions. Everything you need to do all of these projects is right in the box!! Our materials are of the very highest quality and are extremely historically accurate. Your child won't just be learning about history - he will be living it!
