Little House on the Prairie Story Sack

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See what the About.com Guide to Children's Books, Elizabeth Kennedy, has to say about this story. You can also Buy This Book.

Craft Suggestions:

Include supplies to make one or more of these crafts.

• Draw a picture of a house and then glue on popsicle sticks so it looks like a log cabin.
• Make this covered wagon using a milk carton!
• Make cardboard roll puppets of the main characters and put on a puppet show!
• make a dog ears headband and pretend you are the Ingall's dog, Jack.
• Paint a coffee can and pretend it is a lunch pail.
• Make a corn husk doll.
• Use thick frosting or glue and pretzel sticks to make log cabins.
• Make your own western pioneer town using these ideas.
• Make some hand dipped candles.
• Here are a few other pioneer crafts you can try.

Additional Story Sack Items:

Include one or more of these related items in the sack.

• Include some fun facts about the Little House on the Prairie.
• Print out and complete this Little House on the Prairie Crossword Puzzle.
• Print out this Pioneer Word Search.
• Include a map. Try to find some of the places Laura and her family lived and traveled.
• Here are a few suggestions for some related books to include:
  
  1. Inside Laura's Little House
  2. The Little House Trivia Book
  3. The Adventures of Laura & Jack
  4. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook
• Include paper and markers or crayons to write or draw a related story. Write about how you would feel if you were a pioneer. Better yet, include a feather (cut the tip at an angle) and ink and draw and write with a quill!

Other Suggestions:

Suggestions for more related activities.

• Make your own ice cream.
• Try making your own Butter!
• Watch an episode or two of Little House on the Prairie on TV or video.
• Pretend to be a pioneer family by dressing up or playing with pioneer doll houses and accessories.
• See if there is a museum near you where you can go see artifacts from this era.