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I made the clothes for the whole family.
Who is the tailor?
We made this yummy food from the sap of maple trees.
What is maple syrup?
We colored our clothes with dyes made from these.
What are goldenrod, birchbark, pokeberry, iris, and logwood?
This was the first school boys and girls attended.
What is Dame School?
The keeping room in early colonial days was used for this.
What is cooking, eating, working and sleeping?
I constructed barrels and buckets.
Who is the cooper?
We planted these and trained them to climb up the cornstalks.
What are beans?
Girls learned how to do this when they were small.
What is spin or use the spinning wheel?
This is the first book children used.
What is the New England Primer?
This is how colonial homes were heated.
What is by a fireplace?
I made silver spoons, plates and cups.
Who is the silversmith?
What are squash and pumpkins?
Boys and men made cloth on this.
What is a loom?
The name of the special kind of schoolbook made of wood and horn.
What is a hornbook?
This is the style of the houses built in colonial days.
What is saltbox?
I made leather from animal skins.
Who is the tanner.
We drank this drink made from apples, pears and peaches.
What is cider?
Clothes were sewn this way.
What is by hand?
A town had to build this when 50 or more families lived there.
What is a school?
Mothers and fathers slept in this type of bed.
What is a jack-bed?
I made shoes for the people in town.
Who is the cobbler?
We caught these from the oceans to eat.
What are lobster, clams, and fish?
We planted flax to make this kind of thread.
What is linen?
Teachers were often paid in this way.
What is with corn or other food?
This was a smaller bed for younger children to sleep on that could fit under their parent's bed.
What is a trundle bed?