Middle Ages for Kids

Learning about the middle ages for kids will be memorable and fun with this hands-on medieval times for kids unit elementary age children from pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd, grade, and 4th grade students with love. We have 4 lessons to hep kids learn about the middle ages with middle ages crafts, activities, free printables, and book recommendations. We love making history come alive with our engaging history lessons for kids filled with hands-on projects like these castle activities for kids, knights for kids, medieval art for kids, and so much more!

Middle Ages for Kids - Learning about the middle ages for kids will be memorable and fun with this hands-on medieval times for kids unit elementary age children from pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd, grade, and 4th grade students with love. We have 4 lessons to hep kids learn about the middle ages with middle ages crafts, activities, free printables, and book recommendations. We love making history come alive with our engaging history lessons for kids filled with hands-on projects like these castle activities for kids, knights for kids, medieval art for kids, and so much more!

Middle Ages for Kids

Your kids are going to love these creative and memorable history lessons that will teach about middle ages for kids. These lessons are great for all elementary age kids from preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, and great for families learning together. Each of the lessons includes crafts, hands-on activities, and more to make learning about Medieval times fun! Here are the different parts to the study. Just click on the link to see more about that lesson.

Start out your unit by helping kids learn about life in a medieval castle. Build your own out of boxes, learn about the essential parts of a castle, learn about the science of a catapult, dye silk as they would have in the middle ages, make peasant bread, and read some great books that will make the medieval castles come alive!

 

2 – Knight Unit for Kids

Learn about the important roles of knights, what their coat of arms meant, make a bow and arrow, and read some fascinating books that will make the life of a knight come alive.

3 – Medieval Church for Kids

Kids will be fascinated by the importance of the medieval church during the middle ages. Have fun learning about the origin of pretzels, making illuminated manuscripts, see famous churches from the middle ages, learn how the invention of the printing press brought about the end of the middle ages, and more.

 

4 – Medieval Art: Giotto, Music, and Tapestry

Learn about famous artist Giotto who made beautiful artwork during the middle ages. Kid will have fun making their own egg based paint and creating their own masterpieces to commemorate Giotto. Plus kids will have fun making their own medieval music and weaving simple tapestries with our simple, fun projects.

 

Middle Ages Resources

Middle Ages for Kids Resources

  
                            

History Lessons for Kids

Our fun, hands-on and engaging homeschool history include not only clever activities to make history fun and memorable, but FREE printable worksheets and games too!

  • Mesopotamia History – learn about he cradle of civilization while making costumes, recipes, maps, their own wheeled transport replica, play the royal game of Ur, make raised reliefs, practice cuneiform in clay, and construct their own ziggurats!
  • Early Explorers contains activities and printables to relive the adventures of early explorers for kids as they become a Viking with Leif Erickson, sale around the world with Magellan, head to China with Marco Polo, discover the New World with Columbus, and more!
  • Middle Ages for Kids. Build your own Medieval Castle, learn about the science of a catapult, dye silk, make peasant bread, find out the important roles of knights, make a bow and arrow, learn the origin of pretzels, making illuminated manuscripts, make artwork with egg paint and weaving simple tapestries .
  • Native Americans for Kids – explore various tribes as you create free printable book, make PVC tent, totem poles, Indian fry bread, husk dolls, recreate an archeological dig with arrow heads, and more!
  • Colonial America for Kids takes kids on a journey back to the first settlers in America – eat Gruel, make a Wattle & Daub house, create a tin lantern, write with a quill, make simple Johnny Cakes, make you own marbles, create traditional silhouette art projects, and more.
  • American Revolution for Kids.  In 4 units your students will learn what events lead up to the American Revolution and famous figures will making dragon pistols, roll their own cartridges, working spy cipher, cold feet activity.
  • What was the Westward Expanion?  History comes alive as they learn about the Oregon trail, pony express, gold rush, transcontinental railroad, and more with printables and activities like making a covered wagon, homemade crackers, how to square dance, pan for gold, and make a railroad project.
  • Civil War for Kids We have recommendations for mapping and visiting famous battle sights nearby, printable civil war board game, make an informative emergent reader, create a flip book or people students should know, and complete some free printable Civil War worksheets.
  • United States for Kids – we have worksheets, games, state coloring pages and more to make learning about the USA fun!
  • Learn about the Children of the World and the countries they live in with our handy, FREE resources: country readers, map of the world for kids to print and label,  a printable countries of the world coloring book.

Looking for more fun, creative ways you can begin homeschooling for free? We have over 1,000,000 pages of FREE pre k worksheets, kindergarten worksheets, grade 1 worksheets, second grade worksheets and more for K12. Plus see our history lesson plans, free math games, english worksheets, sight words activities, alphabet worksheets, and cvc word games for kids of all ages!

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