Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the "Diminutive Box" series that depicts her family's innovator spirit.
American writer and colonizer Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) wrote the "Minor Habitation on the Prairie" series for children. Her books depict her family's procedure from the Ample Woods of Wisconsin to current territories where they adapted and survived on resident funds. For modern-day readers, Mistress. Wilder's accounts can inspire deference for family, local and drift experienced in the 19th century. Activities to guidance Memorialize the "Brief Condo" series can scale from visual activities, performances and timelines to colonist meals.
Drawing Animals
Drawings can comprehend substantial pictures of the Ingalls family's betrothed pets and farm animals such as their dog Jack and Steed Patty depicted in their environment, such as the Crowded Woods, the Western society or the Dakotas. Predatory animals can comprise the panthers, bears and wolves. Manage quotations from the books can accompany the drawings. For instance, when Mister. Ingalls sold the cows before leaving Indian Territory, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote, "There went all the milk and butter."
Dress-up
Playing dress-up or presenting a "Little House" pageant can help evoke the pioneer spirit that Laura's family embodied. Cowboy hats, leather boots, large aprons, sun bonnets and a fiddle can stir participants into thinking what American life was like in the late19th century.
Tracing Journeys
Laura Ingalls Wilder documents the Ingalls journeys that took them from Wisconsin to Kansas, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Creating a large map depicting the USA in the 1880s and tracing the family's wagon trails outlined in the books can give participants an appreciation of the vast territory the Ingalls family helped settle. Ingalls spent countless hours growing and preparing food. A pioneer meal of hickory smoked meat, sweet potatoes, corn cakes, Wisconsin cheese and blueberry pie can include lessons about a plant's life cycle and food production in the 19th century.
A timeline of the places and events can complement the map.
