Fun & Games for Young Pioneers and the Young at Heart

You have arrived at our Fun & Games Page! Click on the links below for fun activities that you can print out and do at home!

 

Santa-Fe-Trail-handouts

Jayhawk

Discover Kansas

Kansas state seal

Kansas State Symbols

Buffalo dot to dot and coloring page

Pioneer Life Activity Sheet

Pioneer Skills Word Search

The Pioneer West

Building a sod house

Native American Activity sheets

Museum coloring pages

Columbia School house coloring page

Textbooks

Teacher

 

Learn the lyrics of Kansas’s state song while watching this video containing many beautiful scenes of Kansas:   http://youtu.be/172fB4CEQ3Q

Learn more about the Kearny County Museum and Kearny County Kansas on this episode of Traveling Kansas:   http://youtu.be/mZ9U3yLPiE4

Learn about the chores that pioneer children had to do in this video: http://youtu.be/hai-k3Ouax0

Enjoy this guessing game from the Geary County Historical Society: http://youtu.be/T5PKzf-EsYw

The Geary County Historical Society has put together this fun video on old-fashioned games for small groups: http://youtu.be/mvoDVYeWDQ4

Watch this video to learn how to play jacks, a once popular children’s game:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwq9SixttsM

The American Cowboy and Cattle Drives, a great short video about the days of the cattle trail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqO-seTh_qc

When the sun went down, cowboys often gathered round the campfire and joined in song. Listen to a couple of their tunes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2cFji4CmHE     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvvUJdBULbQ

Some awesome pictures of the American cowboy set to “The Last Cowboy”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeDcF1v_Y4

 


Follow these links to other fun pages on the web!

http://www.travelks.com/things-to-do/virtual-center/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/index.asp

http://www.fws.gov/refuges/learn/coloring-pages.html

http://westernexpansion.mrdonn.org/cowboys.html

http://littlehouseontheprairie.com/

http://sofestive.com/2015/07/20/simple-ways-to-celebrate-pioneer-day/

http://www.pbs.org/parents/crafts-and-experiments/how-to-make-soap

http://www.verywellfamily.com/jump-rope-games

http://amhistory.si.edu/ourstory/activities/sodhouse/more.html