Oregon trail wagon project

Oregon Trail Covered Wagon creates with my grandson for a school project with things we found around the house. Cardboard box, twine, popsicle sticks, 4 bolts w/nuts, a piece of plexiglass, an old piece of canvas, glue gun and miscellaneous items from their craft box. And some imagination!

Pioneer history usually comes up in the intermediate grades inspiring children to wonder how to build a covered wagon model as a school project. Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners, built specifically for overland travel, are an icon of most people's conception of the westward movement in 19th century United States. Rather than laying out the cash for an expensive wagon model kit, make a covered wagon model out of recycled materials and some basic crafting supplies.

While reading the Little House books, we read about how they travelled in a covered wagon. Here is a covered wagon we made and you can make too!

Perfect for homeschool children in kindergarten, first grade, or second grade, this simple caredboard craft helps them create a covered wagon to learn more about Westward Expansion in the United States. For this craft, we’ll make our own mini covered wagons using cardboard and felt.

Oregon trailer wagon kids school project

Westward Ho! All you explorers, have fun coloring and building your own paper covered wagon with this printable project.

Make Oregon Trail History come alive for kids by making a salt dough map, a covered wagon craft, DIY crackers, and more in this westward expansion lesson.

Build wagons, filter water, cook over a campfire and more in this hands-on homeschool Oregon Trail unit study for upper elementary. Full STEAM, English Language Arts (ELA), history, living books, and more! Original, hand-drawn art vocabulary cards, science and writing printables free for subscribers (and subscribing is free, too!)

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Turn your classroom into a wagon train as you travel west on the Oregon Trail. Create fun and engaging ABC books to learn how the pioneers moved west!