People and their Homes
This is the age that children stopped wearing baby clothes.
What is 6 years old?
This is the name of the first school boys and girls went to.
What is Dame School?
This is what people in Colonial Times thought of being lazy.
What is a sin?
These were the things the town pewterer made.
What is pewter spoons, plates, and mugs?
This is where people gathered on Sundays for Church.
Where is the meeting house?
What is covered with a coif?
You had to wear this if you didn't know your lessons.
What is a dunce cap?
This was a sleigh pulled by one horse.
What is a pod?
This persons job was to ground corn into cornmeal and flour.
Who is the Miller?
Is was against the law for the baker to do this.
What is bake bad bread?
This is what people mostly ate in colonial times.
What is corn?
This is what children had to sit on at school.
What are hard benches?
Dolls that could not be played with where made from this.
What is wood?
This colonial worker used wood clamps to make a Chippendale chair.
Who is the Joiner?
On this day you could not laugh, play, or do any work.
What is the Lord's Day?
Who are men and boys?
Older children used this book.
What is the New England Primer?
This was a special day held once a month with races and contests.
What is Training Day?
This worker made barrels and buckets.
Who is the Cooper?
This is where you might have to sit if you broke the law.
Where is out in the stocks?
They had to help make clothes for the family.
Who is everyone?
Tis is what boys used to write with instead of pencils.
What are goose quill pens and lumps of lead?
These are 3 toys that boys played with.
What are drums, balls, kites,(also tops)?
He was a famous silversmith from Colonial Times.
Who is Paul Revere?
Is was against the law to do this on Sunday.
What is kiss your mom and dad?
What is make your bed?
What is shave?