1. Land Grab Planning Guide

2. You need a group. You can not work by yourself. Partners can be from any 4 th grade class. Teachers must approve.

3. You need a costume. 1.A hat to represent the era. 2.Borrow a bandana. 3.Girls can wear skirts/jeans. 4.Boys can wear long-sleeved shirts.

4. Hats People traveling on the prairie needed protection from the sun. Sun bonnetHats

5. Boys in shirts and hats

6. Clothing ideas for girls

7. Sometimes coonskin hats were used.

8. To protect their faces from dust, pioneers used neckerchiefs or bandanas. Neckerchiefs

9. Transportation You need a wagon (or model). Livestock will pull the wagon (oxen, horses, or mules). You can draw an animal or copy one from the internet.

10. A wagon to carry your supplies

11. Another wagon

12. Some mighty fine livestock!

13. Crops Pioneers raised wheat, oats, or barley to sell. They raised corn, potatoes, and beans to eat.

14. Crops

15. Crops you can draw Wheat Corn

16. A Crop of Corn

17. Your home Pioneers lived in tents for a while. Often they built sod houses. You can use tents or cardboard boxes to show that you have a “home.” Stakes and rope (string, yarn) to fence in a 10X10 plot.

18. Tent or Sod House??

19. What will you do now? Form a group. Get a costume. Combine supplies with partners. Let’s have some fun!