colonial life

Colonial Life

By Katherine Fenwick

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to colonial times
2. A Growing town
3. Home sweet home
4. Hunt cook eat
5. Colonial apple pancakes recipe
6. A busy day
7. A colonist closet
8. On the move
9. School bell
10. Recces
11.Freedom
12. Glossary
13. Bibliography

Welcome to Colonial times

Hi my name is Caroline and I live in a
small colony. A colony is a place owned by
another country. The 13 colonies in America
were owned by England and ruled by the
King .

Starting about 400 years age Europeans These are the thriteen colonys
started coming America to start colonies.
Explorers had gone back to Europe and
telling us about the new land. When people
from France started a colony it would belong
to France. When people from England started
a colony then it would belong to England

In 1653 there were ten English colonies in
America. In 1750 England owned 13 colonies
along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1776 the thirteen colonies break Click here
from England and became the United States
of America .

A Growing Town

Colonial times Today

Colonial towns had narrow Towns today have very large buildings
and our cities were huge like Albany
streets and their buildings or Troy. Animals always lived out in a
barn or outside but dogs and cats live
were small they were very in our houses. Garbags trucks take
our garbage instead of throwing it on
few large buildings. The the streets.

colonist also through their

garbage on the streets .

Animals lived inside peoples

home, Animals like cows and

goats .

Colonial towns were closer

together and smaller . The

Governor was the leader of

the colony.

This is a picture of their roads

Home Sweet Home

Good morrow I’m Elizabeth I’m 10 years These are some colonial homes

old. I live in a small colonial town. Most
colonies made their houses out of wood.
Their were no sinks or toilets in our
house. Toilets were outside in a small
building called a necessary. We kept
chamber pots under our beds so we
didn’t have to walk outside a night to go
to the bathroom. But in the morning we
had to clean the chamber pots even if it
isn’t ours

We used a well to get cold water and
then wash ourselves with cold water. We
only took a bath few times a year.

Most of us made our own furniture.
We had simple wooden chairs , tables,
and benches. But Wealthy colonist
sometimes brought fancy furniture that
was made in Europe.

Hunt ,Cook ,Eat

Hi my name is Grace. I love to help
my mother cook. For breakfast we
made/eat cornmeal with maple syrup. For
Noon Meal we made stew made of meat
and vegetables. For supper we made
mush but without syrup. I sure would
rather have breakfast than supper.

Our people are afraid to drink water
from rivers cause we got sick from
drinking the water from the rivers. The
river water wasn’t that clean so we drink
juice from fruit.

The first people grew mostly all of
their food like squash,pumpkins,and corn.

The men in our town would hunt These are some foods
rabbits, squirrels,and deer. I and all the colonial people ate
other children would go to the sea or
river to fish and dig clams and oysters
out of the sand .

Colonist Recipe - Apple Pancakes

1. Place all the ingredients in the bowl except the apples You will need
1 ½ cup chopped
2.stir then together till smooth mix apples
3. Stir in the chopped apples into the bowl ½ cup of flour
4. Pour mixture onto a griddle and cook over medium heat
5. When the bottom of the pancake is brown flip it. ¼ cup of sugar

2 eggs

3 tbsp of milk

These are the ½ melted butter
colonial apple
pancakes . 1 teaspoon of
cinnamon

1 pinch of salt

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This is an Job names A Busy Day
Apothecary craftsperson
Definition
This is a apothecary a person that make stuff with
carftsperson their hands no tools
Silversmith
Sold medicine , candy ,
Crirer Eyeglass and, spices
post Rider
Guns maker Melt silver and turn it into a
Wigmaker fancy bowl
Miller
The cooper Rings bell around town
shouting out the news
Deliver mail 2 other Colony

Made guns
Made wig for the wealthy
Made flour
Made barrels and buckets

A Colonist Closet

Girls wore long dresses Boys and men wore
and hats all the time . knee length pants and
at home they wore
wool stockings all year
aprons to keep their long. some wealthy
dress clean . Their people bought shoes
clothing was heavy. from Europe to the 13
Most woman made
colonies .
their own clothing.

Paint colors
Indigo blue
Iris purple
Goldenrod yellow
Cranberries
Blackberries red
black

This is how people made
clothing in colonial times

On The Move

Travels ate and rested at taverns Fun fact
for a night or two. The travelers The most popular way travel
had to share a room with is to walk
complete strangers .
This is a picture of a
When people traveled it was stagecouch
hard and dangerous. Colonist
that lived near water traveled by
boat. Stagecoaches were coaches
that took people on long rides or
trips. There are four different
ways to travels horse,
stagecoaches, boat and most
popular was walking everywhere.

Their roads were made out
of packed dirt

School Bell

Cause Effect

When children behave badly They had to sit in the corner or received a
whipping
Each children had to bring in a pieces
of wood if the children didn’t bring in a piece of
wood they would have to sit the farthest
School lessons were not free parents away from the fire
sent food or money to school with their
children to pay the teacher. At school
some kids would write while the others
would read aloud to each other. Some
kids took dancing lessons or music
lessons . At school children learned how
to read write and solve math problems.
Their were no pencils or paper. They
read from the bible and some kids
wrote on a tree bark with a lump of coal
or feather.

This is a picture of a colonial

Recess!

Some games back in colonial are:
bowling spin a top, blinds man buff,
ring toss, marbles,flying a kite,stack
race, walking on stillness and one
games we still play today is checkers .
Children still had time to play games
like horseshoes or quits they also
played bored games like checkers and
backgammon.

Outdoor games were like jump
rope, leap frog foot races rann races
with sacks. The girls played grace to

help them become graceful ladies.

Freedom CLICK HERE

As more Europeans came to the colonies
towns and the population grow bigger. Their
were more foods growing and more food to
share. Fishermen and hunters hunted a lot
more so they could get more foods cause they
had more people to feed.

1776 leaders of the thirteen English
colonies had join to have a meeting. They
decided to join together to form a new
country separate from England. In 1781 the
colonies won a war against England. Its
known as the war of Independence or the
Revolution War. After they won the war the
thirteen colonies became the United States of
America



Glossary

colony - small town owned by another country
Necessary - bathroom outside for colonist
Wealthy - rich people
Noon Meal - lunch
Thirteen colonies - 13 states in usa

Bibliography

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AMERICA? CAPSTONE CLASSROOM, 2013.

Isaacs, Sally Senzell. Life in a Colonial Town. Heinemann Library,
2001.

Kalman, Bobbie. Colonial Crafts. Crabtree Pub., 1993.

Kalman, Bobbie. A Visual Dictionary of a Colonial Community.
Crabtree Pub. Co., 2008.

Raum, Elizabeth. Scoop on Clothes, Homes, and Daily Life in
Colonial America. Capstone Press, 2017.