Great Colonial America Projects: You Can Build Yourself

We have been loving the Colonial America book. We've already worked our way through most of it, enjoying the following projects: making a stick-and-hoop game, crafting a scented pomander (out of orange, cloves, and cinnamon), making silhouette portraits, weaving (with yarn and an oatmeal container), learning "fan talk", cooking Johnny Cakes (cornmeal pancakes), making tin plates out of foil and toothpicks, making signs for cabinetmaking and bookbinding shops, making tin lanterns...and more are planned.Along the way, I have become very pleased with the amount of knowledge my children (7 and 9) are retaining. The projects truly do include items found in most homes, and most are easy enough for the children to do alone. The book is packed with so much detail and information on daily colonial life, as well as famous figures, stories, and timelines--it is now our go-to reference book on that time period. I can't wait to go through Kris Bordessa's other hands-on books.

This will be a great resource for us a we learn about Colonial America in our homeschool endeavors.There are lots of fun activities and great historical facts through out the entire book. Can't wait to use it for school in the Fall!

Good book. Some of projects for younger folks (if you have some would be great - or if your teaching primary history classes and allowed to mention early America). Some are just good things to know how to do. I'm only downgrading as somewhat more simplistic for us. Worth the buy though.

Very interesting projects with background for each of them. We really enjoyed making a lot of the projects. Some favorites were: making quill pens with turkey feathers, candle making, printer press project (Ben Franklin), barometer, can lantern, and practicing fan talk. I would highly recommend it for homeschool families especially.

My daughter learns the best with hands on projects. I have been making up and finding them on line for history lessons and was very excited to find this. I will be getting more in the series as I need them.

This book doesn't have any "new" information other than what is normally taught to upper elementary school children, but it does have great projects! I'm excited to complete them with my class!

Was expecting more pages to use as templates but this one is more along the lines of giving ideas of things to make with household objects. Still nice just wasn't what I had expected.

I was very satisfied with this product. It was just as described. It is very useful. Thank you. Janet W