5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History

SHARE:


5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

My husband and I met in college while we were both studying to be history teachers, so it's obviously a subject that we're quite fond of!  History can be difficult for young children to understand, though, since their sense of time isn't fully developed.  There are definitely ways that you can help young kids learn history, and more importantly, help them learn to LOVE history so that they'll continue wanting to learn about it as they grow.

The trick is to make it FUN, and one of the best ways to do that is with historically themed toys and books.  Here are some of our favorite tools for How To Help Little Kids LOVE History.

This post may contain Amazon or other affiliate links.  If you use these links, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.  I received a doll from The Queen's Treasures in exchange for an honest review.  Click here for my full privacy and disclosure policies.

 

Historically Themed Dolls


5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

A special doll can go a long way in helping a child to love history.  My daughters LOVE the "Little House On The Prairie" series of books.  When The Queen's Treasures offered to send us one of their officially licensed Laura Ingalls dolls to review, I knew my daughters would be thrilled to play with her!  So far, Laura has really helped to expand their dramatic play.  They have been busy acting out prairie scenarios from the books!

5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

Laura is an 18" doll with bright blue eyes and pretty brown braids.  She comes in a sweet prairie nightgown with her very own rag doll, quilt, and pillow.  Her box even turns into a bed!

A history themed doll, along with some well chosen accessories can help children's history learning come to life.  Learning through play is definitely the way to go with young children!

5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

You can get your own Laura Ingalls doll and a complete line of accessories by visiting The Queen's Treasures.  The line is also available from Target.com.

5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

Dress Up Costumes


5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

Another way to encourage kids to love history is to provide them with historical dress up costumes.  I recently made my daughters prairie girl costumes to help with their "Little House" play.  They've been in Laura-And-Mary-La-La-Land ever since!  We also get lots of great ideas for "Little House" play from the Little House On The Prairie website.  There are loads of great crafts, recipes, and other historical information.

Other fun historical dress up choices are kings and queens, knights, Greek gods and goddesses, presidents, renaissance ladies, soldiers, or gladiators.

History Picture Books


5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

Picture books are such a fantastic way to introduce kids to history.  While there are plenty of great non-fiction books available, younger children are typically drawn to the great stories and characters in picture books.  Some of our favorites (other than the "Little House" series, of course) are Moonshot: The Flight Of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca, The Buffalo Storm by Katherine Applegate, and Locomotive by Brian Floca.  Books in the "Magic Tree House" series by Mary Pope Osborne, while not technically picture books, are also great for historical learning.

Coloring Books About Historical Time Periods


5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

Dover makes a great line of historical coloring books.  They may be too advanced for preschoolers, but kindergartners and elementary kids should be fine with them.  Pick a subject that your child is interested in and let them color away!  There are loads of great details to notice and think about in the images.

Other History Play Sets And Toys


5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

There are fantastic play sets that can help your child act out historical scenes.  Playmobil has many choices from many different time periods.  

5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.

You can also find Safari Toobs of small figurines from many historical eras.  Provide children with the basic narrative and facts about a time period or place and let them play with toys to act it out!

Despite it's reputation, history isn't boring.  With the right tools and strategies, young children can learn to love history and carry that love of learning with them throughout their lives!


https://www.facebook.com/WhatCanWeDoWithPaperAndGlue/
 https://www.pinterest.com/paperglue/
https://www.instagram.com/whatcanwedowithpaperandglue/
http://madmimi.com/signups/125528/join

Name

activity animals art author back to school bears bees bird black history book extension book list books budget butterfly cats chalk chapter books children christmas cinco de mayo circus coins colors construction cookie craft crafts culture curriculum dentist different dinosaurs discovery table diy doctor dogs dolls Earth Day easter elementary fabric fall family family theme farm fathers day fine motor first grade five senses flowers food france fruit game geography gift gift guide gross motor grownup halloween healthy history homeschool ideas independence day insect insects invitation jungle keepsake kids kindergarten kindness kinesthetic learning lego letter of the week literacy lunch math menu resource mothers day music my body nature numbers obstacle course ocean organization origami ornament outer space painting paper parenting play play dough pops preschool preschool resource pretend printable process art pumpkin quiet time rainbows reading roundup recipe recycle Roundup science season second grade sensory Seuss sewing shapes snack snacks soup spanish spring st. patrick's day summer sweet bite Thanksgiving toddler toys transportation trees tutorial united states valentine vegetarian washi tape weather weekly theme winter yarn
false
ltr
item
What Can We Do With Paper And Glue: 5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History
5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History
5 Ways To Help Little Kids LOVE History. Instill a love of history in young children by making it fun! These tips for making history fun will help to create a lifelong love of history learning in preschoolers, kindergartners, and early elementary students.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM08_q_1IxWQj6GE7vE4UNo0En9ofh2sx4T8YocsN22OJkkYNnoC_bcLvGKFRcQ1mSQbDAg6lyq-Bpqy7RqAAbsg6sBD2si93n-SeJvYtGsUdNRthq_GPL2iraLIuuRafyi2nuVvFOybJ1/s640/5-Ways-To-Help-Little-Kids-Love-History-2.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM08_q_1IxWQj6GE7vE4UNo0En9ofh2sx4T8YocsN22OJkkYNnoC_bcLvGKFRcQ1mSQbDAg6lyq-Bpqy7RqAAbsg6sBD2si93n-SeJvYtGsUdNRthq_GPL2iraLIuuRafyi2nuVvFOybJ1/s72-c/5-Ways-To-Help-Little-Kids-Love-History-2.jpg
What Can We Do With Paper And Glue
http://www.paper-and-glue.com/2016/11/5-ways-to-help-little-kids-love-history.html
http://www.paper-and-glue.com/
http://www.paper-and-glue.com/
http://www.paper-and-glue.com/2016/11/5-ways-to-help-little-kids-love-history.html
true
2983766635568173784
UTF-8
Not found any posts VIEW ALL Readmore Reply Cancel reply Delete By Home PAGES POSTS View All RECOMMENDED FOR YOU LABEL ARCHIVE SEARCH ALL POSTS Not found any post match with your request Back Home Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat January February March April May June July August September October November December Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec just now 1 minute ago $$1$$ minutes ago 1 hour ago $$1$$ hours ago Yesterday $$1$$ days ago $$1$$ weeks ago more than 5 weeks ago Followers Follow THIS CONTENT IS PREMIUM Please share to unlock Copy All Code Select All Code All codes were copied to your clipboard Can not copy the codes / texts, please press [CTRL]+[C] (or CMD+C with Mac) to copy