I am a Pioneer 

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P is for the p-p-p Pioneer. 

This lesson can adapt to all ages.

Pioneers played games, packed, pretended, acted in plays, played music, prayed, played paper dolls and learned to be polite.

What did the Pioneer pack?

The Pioneers found the right place. Check out the symbols of Utah to learn more. Roll the cube and find out what each cube side means. You will advance in order, so be sure to roll the right picture or you don't move. It is the girl pioneer against the boy pioneer team. Find out the first to the finish.

Copy and cut out cube. Fold on the solid lines. Assemble into a cube.

Pioneer Game Board and Cube

Prepare for a Utah Pioneer Days of 47 Celebration.
Color this pocket book about Utah

Cut out strip one and two. (do not cut out page for page)

Fold back and forth and then staple for a pocket coloring book. Happy July 24th!

Utah flag coloring page

There are the following symbols on this flag:

1. eagle

2. a bee hive

3. 1847 The year of the Pioneer arrival. Brigham announces, "This is the place"

4. 2 American flags

5. sego lilies

6. arrows

7. 1896 - Utah becomes the 45th state

The seagull is the state bird but is not found on the state flag.

This is a microstrip mini Pioneer Story
Cut out the 4 strips. Cut the finger puppets apart from the rest of the story. Fold back and forth connecting the strips in order for a microstrip book. 
Bonus: 3 finger puppets (Just cut out puppet and finger hole)

A Pioneer Story

 

                                                     


          

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A color and cutting paper doll activity
 (you will need a brad fastener)

Learn about pioneer play with games

Circle the Wagons Game

• There will be 2 teams
• Team one are the Pioneers
• Team 2 are the Indians
• The Indians get the sling shots with large marshmallows or Nerf arrows 
• The Pioneers get squirt guns
• The Pioneers dance until the music stops & then it is time to circle the wagons
• The Pioneers will turn and face outward in a circle. 
• The Indians will attack 
• When you are hit, you lay down until your team is down ________________________________________________________

Build a Pretzel Cabin

You will need:

Large pretzel rods, pretzels, frosting, graham crackers, paper plates, and small baggies (scissors)

Fill the small bag with frosting and twist at the end of the frosting. Clip the corner tip of the bag with a very small clip. Your have made a frosting bag for them to squeeze and glue together the log cabin.  have the team supplies in front of them with a paper plate to build the cabin on. Blow the whistle. The first one done wins. Then you can give prizes for the most unique, best design, etc.

(Candy sticks would be a good Pioneer prize)

 

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   Embroidery Hoop and Dowels Game

                           Embroidery Hoop and Dowels Game

1. This takes 2 players
2. Have each player hold a dowel opposite of the other player.
3. One player will have the hoop over the dowel.
4. He or she will throw the hoop from their dowel and the person on the opposite side will try to catch it. 
5. Back up each time it is caught. The one last catching it wins. If doing this game as a team, then the pair that gets furthest from each other while catching the hoop, wins.

Pack the Handcart

1. Unwrap a bag for each team to pack in the handcart. 
2. Use a scale for mail or a kitchen scale. 
3. Let each team member pack the handcart. 
4. Weigh it and count the number of Tootsie Roll logs. The one with the most logs and least weight wins. 

 Stick Pull

 (A favorite of the champion, Joseph Smith)

You will need:

A large stick

2 players about the same in size

Each player will sit opposite of each other on the ground with their feet to feet.

When they hear the signal to go, the 2 players pull with all of their weight while trying to stay seated on the ground. 

The player that stays seated on the ground and holding the stick wins.

Pioneer Picture Game

Cut out the Pioneer pictures

You will need safety pins

Have the group of children go around get a clue, if the Pioneer picture that the child is wearing is guessed correctly, they get a treat.

 

  

 

 

 

More Pioneer Paper Dolls

                  Pioneer Memory Match or Clue

Have the persons playing, turn all of the cards over that have been copied to card stock and cut out. The game is over after all the matches have been found. Count the one with the most matches. Break this memory match into 3 sets and label each on the back.  There is both a colored and a black and white version.

Draw a card and the give a clue to let them guess what it is.  Then let the next person draw and give a clue. 

color version

 

Black & White Version

 

Pioneer Words

Have a paper and pen or pencil for each person

Write as many pioneer things as you can think of

in 2 minutes on a slate (sm. chalkboard)

covered wagon, ax, knife, pots and pans, beans, rice, flour, sugar, salt, lantern, handcart, campfire, Indians, pail, brush, comb, guns, ammo (ammunition), wood, shovel, toys, blankets, pillow, violin or fiddle, bugle, checkers, books, handkerchief, cow, chicken (eggs), pigs, scissors, journal, paper, pencil, chalk boards, apron oil, medicine, sewing stuffs, tools to fix with etc. 

Gunny Sack Race

Pie Eating Contest

3 Legged Race

Horseshoes

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More Crafts and Activities

Covered Wagon Coloring Page

Do a Pioneer Play

with a paper plate mask or copy to card stock & laminate 

Attach to a large stick.

(Use the mini 8 page story book for the play script)

 

 

 

 

Name the different people in the play

8 Page Mini Story (for take home as well)

 

Pioneer enemies and then friends with the Indians

Do these activities to teach the triangle shape and the number 10

"10 Little Indians" (10 Little Indians Verse)

Cut out (find the matching Indian)

 10 triangle tee pees

 

Turn over the tee pees and match & name the colors

Place the tee pees in numerical order

Snacks:

Homemade Ice Cream in a Can (roll it in a can)
You will need 4 ingredients 
1 c. whole milk
1 c. heavy cream
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Extra: small chunks of fruit that is ready in a small sip lock bag, You can also try Nutella
Whip it up until creamy and then put in a zip lock bag. Place in refrigerator until your ready to roll it in a can.
You will need:
A large aluminum can from  home storage. (I used an empty dried Bell Pepper Mix can that had 1 LB. 4 oz. in it.
Smaller can or container wrapped in foil to fit in the large can
Rock salt
ice cubes




Pour the zip lock cream mixture into the small can. Add any frozen fruit or fresh fruit that is in small chunks to the creamy mixture .The mixture should not be more than 1/2 full in the small can. Place the Small can in the center of the larger can and put the lid on. Add as much ice around the small can as will fit.  Dump in rock salt over the top. Roll for about 10-15 minutes with 2 people going back and forth. Remove the small can and wash off or wipe down (watch for the salty ice water and try not to get it in the cream). Scrape down the sides of the iced up cream and stir. Place the lid back on. Dump out the salty water and add new ice and salt after the small can is returned to the center of the large can. Put the large lid back on the large can with everything back in the large can.Roll again for another 10-15 minutes. Scrape and Stir. Serve if it is ready (about 1/2 inch frozen cream). Stir the iced cream with the liquid cream together.  It is time to serve, but if not repeat the process. 
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Homemade Root Beer (Made by Joseph Smith's family to sell)
Johnny cakes
biscuits
donuts
muffins
baked apples

Make homemade butter from heavy cream

Pioneer Music for the background while making butter

 ("Come, Come, Ye Saints", "The Pioneer Children Sang As They Walked", "Here Comes the Oxcart")

(You can find these songs for free in the Church of Jesus Christ LDS Hymn Book and the Children's Songbook) on the Church of Jesus Christ LDS.org

1. You will need a small carton of heavy cream and a pint Mason jar with lid
2. Have a helper pour the cream in the bottle. While Pioneer music is playing, pass the bottle around the circle and have each shake the jar vigorously 10 times. (about 10 minutes) 
3. There will be some excess whey milk. Have a plastic knife ready to serve the butter on a quarter slice of wheat bread.

 
 

Other Pioneer Activities

Make a Hollyhock doll

You will need:

• The bud of a flower which should be cut leaving the Hollyhock with the stem as much as you can to go down in the body . (This is the head)
• The dress is the cut flower turned upside down 
• (Push a toothpick up through the skirt and into the head)
• Split the leaf stem for the arms to wrap around the body

 

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                               Make a Quilt

Let each tot have a paper or two in which they will draw what they would like. The more colorful the better. Give them paint, crayons, markers, gel pens etc to do their art. Let each tot punch around their quilt square. Let them stitch their squares to squares (rectangles) with some heavy string they will sew with. This group of pretend Pioneers were in awe at what they put together.

Make a Large Mallow & Graham Cracker Wagon

You will need: 

2 Large roasting marshmallows for the billowing cover of the wagon

Have 4 large graham crackers ready

Break 2 large graham crackers in half

Have paper plate to put the wagon on

Have frosting in a baggy

The first 2 halves are glued together with frosting for the bottom of the wagon.

The second 2 halves go on each side of the wagon.

2 quartered graham crackers go in front & on the back of the wagon. Your glue is the frosting squeezed from the filled frosting baggy and clipped on the corner tip. (twist in the center over the filled frosting part of the bag)

Place the large cracker over the wagon with frosting.

Place 2 large mallows on the long cracker 

Stick a long 1/2 pretzel rod on the front of the wagon

Stick 4 crackers on for the wheels

 

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Here is summary of what you have learned

Letter P, the number 10 for the "10 Little Indians", ten tee pee triangle color match and number sequence,  practice being polite, different people (cultures of the Pioneer & Indians), Pioneer games which they did play that teach more about the Pioneer, Pretending in a play, Paper dolls

Use these fun things with my permission

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From Learning 4 kids website

This is super fun and goes along with the 24th Pioneer Day fireworks.