Hello my dear friends of the Omschool! Teacher Omi loves holidays! Do you? Which holiday is your favorite? Mine are Easter, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day. In today's post I'll share some interactive Memorial Day activities, games and lesson plans that focus on US history. But don't forget that Memorial Day is also about honouring our beloved dead. My omis and opis called it Remembrance Day. And I have school and homeschool activities for that aspect too.
Meanwhile, if you're looking for patriotic themed Memorial Day party activities, here are educational U.S. history party games. Use these for 4th of July parties and American history lesson plans, too. Don't make games too competitive so everyone can have fun without pressure to win. Here are some free printable American history and patriotic coloring pages to supplement lesson plans.
Memorial Day (or Independence Day) Scavenger Hunt: List 20 American themed symbols: flag, scroll for Declaration of Independence, statue of Liberty, elephant, donkey, bald eagle, bell, stars, globe, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, star stickers. Collect items that represent American products: wheat, corn, cars, cattle, fruit. Collect logos of American companies. List 50 items to symbolize each of the fifty states. Put one of each symbol per child in a zippered bag. Hide them around the yard. Give each player a list and a plastic bag. As child finds each, he takes one and puts in his bag. Or put a piece of paper near each for him to sign his name as he finds the item.
Red, White and Blue Rover. Give each player the name of one of the 13 original colonies: Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, North and South Carolina, New York, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey. New Hampshire and Maryland. Divide players in two groups. Each group links hands and takes turns calling for one person from the other side to try to break through the chain. For example: "Red Rover, Red Rover, let Georgia come over."
Armed Services eraser tag. Make two sets of signs with the six branches of the United States armed services: Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard and National Guard. Divide kids in teams. Give each child a sign. Kids place one of their shoes in the center of the circle. When branch is called, both children with that sign rush to grab their shoes and return to their lines without the other tagging. Award points like this: two points for getting your shoe back home without getting tagged. Three points if you get your opponent's shoe. One point if you tag your opponent before she's safe behind the line. 10 points if you get both shoes. Lose 5 points if you grab the wrong shoe!
U.S. History charades. Put names of famous Americans, events, movies, books in history. Students works in teams to act out and guess what or who is being enacted.
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