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Little House
in the Big Woods Lapbook
Created by Heather L.
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Templates
Chapter One
Lapbook Minit Book: Meat
Preservation
How did Pa preserve the meat?
Venison
Pa cut the venison up in pieces,
salted it, and put it on a board. He prepared a hollow log for the smoking
process. He put a hole in each of the pieces of meat and placed it on a
string. He hung the meat on nails inside the hollow log. He built a small fire
inside the log out of bark and moss. He placed some green hickory chips on the
fire to create a nice thick smoke.
Fish
Fish was salted down and placed in
barrels.
Pork
Pa laid the pieces of pork on a board
and salted them. The hams and shoulders were put in brine and smoked like the
venison.
Lapbook Minit Book: Mary’s
Doll, Laura’s Doll
Describe Mary’s doll and Laura’s doll.
Mary had a rag doll named Nettie.
Laura’s doll was a corn cob wrapped in a handkerchief. Her name was Susan.
Chapter Two
Lapbook Minit Book: Chores
Write down Ma’s chore saying
“Wash on Monday,
Iron on Tuesday,
Mend on Wednesday,
Churn on Thursday,
Clean on Friday,
Bake on Saturday,
Rest on Sunday.
Lapbook
Minit Book: How to Make Butter
Lists the steps to make butter
Milk the cow.
Put milk in a place where it would not be disturbed to enable cream to separate.
Skim off the cream.
Add carrot coloring.
Scald the churn dash.
Cream splashed around the hole.
Tiny grains of yellow butter begin to appear on the dash.
Wash the butter
Salt the butter.
Place the butter in a mold.
Chapter Three
Lapbook Minit Book:
Making Bullets
Describe how Pa
made bullets.
Pa melted bits of lead. He poured the melted lead into a bullet mold. When they
had become solid, he released the bullets from the mold. When they were cool,
he used his knife to trim off the bumps left by the mold
Lapbook Minit Book: Gun Safety
Explain why Pa keeping the gun loaded is not
safe.
Chapter Four
Lapbook Minit Book:
Christmas
Describe Christmas at your house and
Christmas at the Ingalls house.
Chapter Five
Lapbook Minit Book: Sunday
Describe the Ingalls’ Sunday Routine.
Lapbook Minit Book:
Grandpa’s Sled and the Pig
Retell the story
Chapter Six
Lapbook Minit Book: Escaping the Bear
What did Laura do that allowed them to get away from the Bear?
Laura did exactly as Ma told her, quickly and without question.
Chapter Seven
Lapbook Minit Book:
Sugar Snow
What is sugar snow?
When the temperatures drop suddenly after a warm spell and produce large
snowflakes, the leafing of trees is slowed and the sap runs longer. This allows
for more production of maple syrup or sugar.
Lapbook Minit Book:
It’s Maple Syrup Time
Describe the
process of collecting and making maple syrup.
Drill holes in the maple trees and place taps in the holes.
Hang buckets on the taps.
Empty buckets into large kettle/container.
Boil sap – adding more sap as necessary.
Skim sap.
Lift ladles of sap up and slowly pour back in if the mixture gets too hot.
Once it has boiled down enough, take out the maple syrup.
When sap starts to grain, quickly place in pans and allow to cool to make maple
sugar.
Chapter Eight
Lapbook Minit Book: Tracks
Label the animal tracks.
1st Deer
2nd Bunny
3rd Fox
4th Mouse
5th Bird
Chapter Nine
Lapbook Minit Book:
Laura and
Mary’s Candy from Town
Write down the
sayings that were on Mary’s and Laura’s candy.
Laura: “Sweets to the Sweet”
Mary: “Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, and so are you.”
Chapter Ten
Lapbook Minit Book: Making
Cheese
Write the steps in making cheese.
Ma added the previous night’s skimmed milk to the cooled milk from the morning
milking and put it on the stove to heat.
A bit of rennet inside a cloth is soaked in warm water.
Once the milk is warm, she squeezes all of the water out of the rennet in the
cloth.
She adds the rennet water to the milk and stirs it well.
The milk mixture is left in a warm place
by the stove until it thickens to a quivering mass.
The mass was cut with a long knife into cubes.
The cubes were allowed to sit until the curb separated from the whey.
The curds and whey were placed in a cloth and allowed to drain.
When all of the whey was drained, the curds were placed in a pan and salted.
The curds were then placed in the cheese hoop to be pressed.
Once all the whey had been pressed out, Ma trimmed the cheese, put a tight cloth
around it, and buttered it.
Each day, she wiped the cheese with a wet cloth and rubbed it with butter until
the cheese was ripe and had a hard rind on it.
Lapbook Minit Book: Collecting
Honey
Write down how Pa collected the honey
Pa found a bee tree.
He had to scare away a bear that was eating the honey.
He chopped down the tree and split it open.
He removed the honey and honey comb from the tree.
He brought it home in buckets.
Chapter Eleven
Lapbook Minit Book:
Harvesting Grain
Describe the process of harvesting the oats.
Pa and Uncle Henry cut down the oats with cradles.
They gathered the oats into piles.
They took the piles and bound them up.
After they had seven bundles, they stood five bundles upright and spread two
bundles on top to act as a roof.
Chapter Twelve
Lapbook Minit Book: Straw Hats
Describe how Ma made the straw hats.
Ma soaked the straw in water to soften it.
She braided the straw together.
She added new strands as she got to the end of the current strand.
As she continued braiding, the completed part of the braid was placed back in
the water.
When she had enough straw braided, she sew the braid together round and round to
make the hat.
She tightened and loosened the tension according to where she was in the hat.
At the end, she cut the end of the braid and quickly sewed it so the braid
wouldn’t come undone.
Additional Booklets:
Big Woods Recipes: use index cards or print recipe cards to record recipes.
My Pioneer Story: write a story about living in the Big Woods.
Snow Fun: compare your winter activities with those of Laura and Mary.
Vocabulary: define any words with which you aren’t familiar.
