Log Cabin Ideas for Children
Log cabins have been an integral part of America's history beginning with the first settlers. An excellent way to teach your students about how log cabins were built is to have them make a log cabin themselves. Kindergarten and first grade students will enjoy building their own small log cabins made from everyday items and classroom art materials.
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Pretzel Log Cabin
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Pretzels can be used for more than just eating. Your class can make a log cabin using a milk carton, pretzels and graham crackers. The milk carton will make a perfect frame for the log cabin. Have your students use frosting to attach the pretzels for the walls and graham crackers to make the roof, door and windows. Also provide each student with a small piece of poster board to serve as a platform to hold their cabin. Green mint gumdrops can be used to make a forest around the cabin.
Clay Log Cabin
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Your students can use clay to make rustic log cabins. Show the students your model of a clay log cabin and show them how to roll the clay into logs. Then provide your students with clay and let them make their own log cabins. When the clay is dry let your students paint the log cabins brown and make a log cabin village.
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Paper Strip Log Cabin
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You can show your students pictures of log cabins pointing out how they were built with one log at a time. Then provide your students with a sheet of blue construction paper as a background and strips of brown construction paper that they can use to build their own log cabin. Give your students glue, scissors and crayons and they can make their own unique paper strip log cabins.
Lincoln's Log Cabin
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Read the book "Young Abraham Lincoln: Log-Cabin President," by Andrew Woods to your class. Then let your students make their own Lincoln log cabin using a shiny penny, a sheet of blue construction paper and a worksheet with an uncolored outline of a log cabin. Let your students color the log cabin brown then cut it out. Have them also cut around one side and the top of the door then fold the door back so that it will open and close.Your students can then glue the colored log cabin to a piece of blue construction paper leaving the door open. They can then glue a shiny Lincoln penny face up on the construction paper inside the open door.
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