Little House in the Big Woods Unit Resources

For the past few weeks, we have been reading and studying The Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Over the weeks we have completed many fun activities and I have listed them and more here for you to enjoy.

Unit Studies

• Little House in the Big Woods Literature Study – A Moment In Our World
• Little House in the Big Woods Lapbook – Homeschool Share
• This Little House in the Big Woods Activities and Pioneer Unit uses the Montessori approach to learning.
• Little House in the Big Woods Lapbook – Marine Corps Nomad

Baking Activities

• Make Pancake Men for breakfast
• Make Butter using cream
• Make dried fruit or beef jerky to eat for snacks
• Make your own rock candy (sugar candy)
• Watch videos or learn how to make cheese
• Make some maple syrup snow candy
• Learn the history of Johnnycakes and make some of your own
• Make some Maple Syrup Candy

Craft

• Make Your Own Paper Dolls
• Make a Clove Apple like the one Ma received for Christmas
• Make a Felt Needle Book like the one Ma made
• Make a log cabin picture using strips of brown paper
• Make a corn husk doll
• Learn how a straw hat is made
• A carved a wooden shelf for Ma for Christmas, try carving a small piece of wood. For the younger children, try carving a piece of soap with a butter knife.
• Make Pioneer Paper Dolls
• Make an Old Fashioned Rag Doll
• Make a corn cob doll
• Play this Little House in the Big Woods Game
• Build a Log Cabin
• Make a log cabin picture using strips of brown paper
• Pa carved a wooden shelf for Ma for Christmas, try carving a small piece of wood. For the younger children, try carving a piece of soap with a butter knife.
• Sew a Nine-Patch Quilt
• Build a Covered Wagon

Science

• Learn how bees make honey and how it is collected – Bee Lifecycle Cards, Bee Life Cycle Notebooking Pages, Bee Lapbook
• Learn about Yellow Jackets
• Pa met quite a few bears in the woods, research the different types of bears and where they live
• Research storing and preserving vegetables as that is what the Ingalls family had to do a lot of
• Learn about Animal Footprints
• Measure animal tracks with this fun printable
• This Animal Print Mini Pack is great for the younger children ages 2 – 9
• Complete an Animal Report for the animals you read about in the book.
• Research bears and hibernation
• Research pigs and draw a picture of one
• Learn about the moon and the phases of the moon
• Learn about Woodland Animals with these cards
• This Woodland Animals Printable Pack is great for the younger children

Language Arts

• Pick words in the book that are new to you and create your own Little House Dictionary
• Write an ‘old-fashioned’ journal of a day or week in the life of a pioneer
• Research the author, Laura Ingalls 
• Pa told the girls lots of stories they could learn lessons from. Write a short story in which a person could learn a lesson from.
• Read each story that Pa told the girls and explain what lesson is learnt from each of them
• As you read, take note of the variety of dangers that the family may encounter, list these dangers, chose one and illustrate it.
• Write a journal entry on the comparing and contrasting the characters of Mary and Laura.

Music

• Invite a fiddler to come and play for you
• Listen to or learn to sing some of the songs in the book

History

• Research the names of the people in the book to find out the meanings
• Visit a pioneer museum
• Research a historical building in your town
• Research pioneer life and write a report on it
• Make a pioneer town
• Read the story about Adam naming the animals in Genesis

Geography

• Find North America on a map and then Wisconsin. Find where you live on the map.
• Research Wisconsin, find it on a map and learn all about it
• Research Sweden, find it on a map and learn all about it