Making Historical Home Replicas

For history in the homeschool world, we have been gearing up for the next unit...we toured a museum in the capital and his father took him to the Confederate Relic Museum for the homeschool Friday session about a week ago. Last night we started building colonial village buildings...these will probably be more what we think they looked like or what we are able to build/construct them as!!  So, we started the popsicle buildings!!  Of course, I was more into than he was...as this one was mine and it is to be a model for him to get creative with his own creations...but....


we still need to paint it, but you get the idea...i guess this would be more of a one room country cottage or frontiersman type home!! 














more buildings to come!!

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