Mayflower craft

This week we are focusing on Thanksgiving. Brought to you by the letters P, T, & M. We had a lot of awesome printable worksheets you can find on the web and we talked / learned all about the Native Americans, what Thanksgiving means, the Pilgrims, & the Mayflower. Our craft this week was to construct the Mayflower.

• Mayflower craft
• cardstock (any color)
• white paper 
• blue construction paper 
• crayons
• scissors
• glue
• We were out of a lot of colors of construction paper (need to restock!!), so we colored a lot of ours, which she really enjoyed
• first, have the child cut out the shapes to make the boat, waves, sails, rods, & flags (you can do it for them of course if they can't use scissors)
• then color the pieces (if necessary) - you may have all the colors of construction paper you need (we even had to color the blue for the sky)
• finally glue them on piece by piece to make the boat 

This was a great project to not only learn about the Pilgrims & the Mayflower, but also to reinforce cutting and glue skills. Finally, I wrote out "The Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower" and she had to write in the "P" for "Pilgrim and the "M" for Mayflower. 

(thanks Pinterest!!)