Oregon trail wagon project

Oregon trailer wagon kids school project

Oregon Trail Covered Wagon creates with my grandson for a school project with things we found around the house. Cardboard box, twine, popsicle sticks, 4 bolts w/nuts, a piece of plexiglass, an old piece of canvas, glue gun and miscellaneous items from their craft box. And some imagination!

DIY covered wagon

Pioneers traveled across America in covered wagons. The wagons are instantly recognizable for their wooden frames, and canvas coverings. You don't need to be a pilgrim living in America to make a covered wagon, however. With some items...

Make Oregon Trail History come alive for kids by making a salt dough map, a covered wagon craft, DIY crackers, and more in this westward expansion lesson.

Covered Wagon Project

Westward Ho! All you explorers, have fun coloring and building your own paper covered wagon with this printable project.

While reading the Little House books, we read about how they travelled in a covered wagon. Here is a covered wagon we made and you can make too!

Love it when old rolls of corrugated cardboard turn out to make the perfect cover for a wagon. Best of all, the curve is already built in. Use a paper cutter to cut cardboard rectangles to make a 3″ x

Teaching About The Oregon Trail - Journey of a Substitute Teacher

When I was a young child I loved pretending I was an explorer or settler who had to build their own home, make their own food and supplies. That’s probably why I love the story of Ox-Cart Man so much. In Ox-Cart Man our man loads up his wagon with supplies and journeys to the city […]

Recently, the second grade teachers asked me to come up with an art project related to the Oregon Trail. This is what I came up with. The wagons are made of milk cartons, which are cut in half. We painted the carton with brown tempera paint. The cover to the wagon was just a piece of paper, which we slid into the carton. I let my students decorate the wagon covers with crayon. I know, the real pioneers did not have colorful wagons, but I decided that the wagons would be more fun this way…

Going on the Oregon trail! Fun covered wagon project to do with your kids.

Jacob's California Gold Rush Project- (for the water I used a blue cellophane bag that I crumbled up for texture & glued the river rocks & "gold" with clear silicone.

Build wagons, filter water, cook over a campfire and more in this hands-on homeschool Oregon Trail unit study for upper elementary. Full STEAM, English Language Arts (ELA), history, living books, and more! Original, hand-drawn art vocabulary cards, science and writing printables free for subscribers (and subscribing is free, too!)

This is the Covered Wagon Bed I just finished for my almost 3 year old daughter, Lily. I didn't have any plans for it so I just went off a picture I found online of a full sized one. I had to adjust it to fit her toddler mattress and make it low enough to the floor so she could get in and out easy enough. The little tool box on the front serves as a foot rest for her when she's sits on the buckboard and also houses diapers or could store a couple of blankets. From the look on her face in…

Pioneer history usually comes up in the intermediate grades inspiring children to wonder how to build a covered wagon model as a school project. Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners, built specifically for overland travel, are an icon of most people's conception of the westward movement in 19th century United States. Rather than laying out the cash for an expensive wagon model kit, make a covered wagon model out of recycled materials and some basic crafting supplies.

Perfect for homeschool children in kindergarten, first grade, or second grade, this simple caredboard craft helps them create a covered wagon to learn more about Westward Expansion in the United States. For this craft, we’ll make our own mini covered wagons using cardboard and felt.

Hello, hello friends!! Here in the great state of Utah July 24th is a pretty special day. It is the day we celebrate our pioneer herita...

Pioneer Covered Wagon