Take a tour of the USA history with a delicious dish just for kids! The great part is that they’ll be learning a bit about US history and the origins of Thanksgiving in the process.
My kids love learning about history in hands-on and engaging ways. They are particularly fond of making recipes that tie in history or geography.
Tour of USA: Thanksgiving Succotash Recipe for Kids
Eat Your U.S. History Homework: Recipes for Revolutionary Minds book is a that does just that. It is a history and recipe book all in one. When I first discovered it, I knew the children would adore it!
This is history-themed recipe book with six recipes from the 1600-1800’s.
- Thanksgiving Succotash
- Colonial Cherry-Berry Grunt
- Lost Bread
- Southern Plantation Hoe Cakes
- Revolutionary Honey-Jumble Cookies
- Independence Ice Cream
You can check out the fun the kids had making the Revolutionary Honey-Jumble cookies last time.
What did the children make this week? Thanksgiving Succotash!
Thanksgiving Day Facts for Kids
This was such a fun activity for the kids! Not only did they get to make a delicious dish, but they also learned some Thanksgiving facts in the process…
- 102 Pilgrims left Europe on the Mayflower in 1620.
- The Pilgrims survived for sixty-five days on this voyage eating mostly dried meat, fish, and hardened crackers.
- Almost half of the Pilgrims died during their first winter in their new home of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- The Wampanoag were the indigenous people that taught the Pilgrims to hunt and grow food in their new home.
- Did you know that the foods that were served at the first Thanksgiving were not your typical holiday fare today? We’re talking deer meat, stewed pumpkin, and wildfowl. Although there probably was a turkey!
- In the mid-1800’s Sarah Josepha Hale (author of the poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb”) argued that Thanksgiving should be a national holiday.
- In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving day.
- But in 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill into law stating that the national holiday would be on the fourth Thursday in November.
These were just some of the fun Thanksgiving facts that we learned while making Succotash!
Tour of USA: Thanksgiving Succotash Recipe for Kids
Eat Your U.S. History Homework: Recipes for Revolutionary Minds is a great way to bring American history to life. The Thanksgiving Succotash got two thumbs up from both kids.
What recipe do the children want to make next?
Lost Bread!
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