Revolutionary War for Kids – War is Brewing

Learn about the American Revolutionary War for Kids with this fun history for kids lesson. We’ve included fun hands-on American history activities like a printing press Revolutionary War Project Ideas , lots of great book recommendations, and a free printable revolutionary war lapbook with important dates and people. This is a fun American history for kids unit for kindergartners, first graders, 2nd graders, 3rd graders, 4th graders, 5th graders, and 6th graders.

Revolutionary War for Kids

Learn about famous Americans during our War of Independence from the British around 1776 with this fun American history for kids lesson. In our revolutionary war lapbook you will learn about important people from both the red coats (lobster tails) and patriots of the militia as well as major events in the timeline from the Boston Massacre to the Declaration of Independence and George Washington leading the 13 colonies to become the United States of America. We have also included revolutionary war project ideas to keep kindergartners and elementary age students in grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, and grade 6 engaged and make learning fun!

Revolutionary War Lapbook

Each week we will add more dates to our timeline and learn about famous people from the American Revolution. You can do this unit without buying a single textbook (assuming you have a good local library)! Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> ____ <<. The American revolution lapbook pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

American Revolution for kids

This homeschool history unit is perfect for the entire family to do together with lots of great book, hands on history projects, and a free printable American Revolution Lapbook. So join us as we relive history in our revolutionary war for kids unit

I found this WONDERFUL resource! It is a cartoon series called Liberty Kids. It goes through the Revolutionary war in about 40 episodes. It includes famous people, major battles, perspective from both sides, is fun to watch (I enjoyed it to!) and does this all in a tasteful, accurate way. LOVE it! We used this entire series. Our local library had it so we were able to check it out. If yours does not, it is totally worth the $12 to own your own copy!!

This week we watched episode 1-5 of video series (1 a day for week).

Revolutionary War Timeline

As we studied the American revolution for kids we learned about the following events and added them to our timeline project (see the bottom of post for freebie).

• TAXES on molasses, tea, paper goods (Stamp Act)
• Boston Massacre – Goofy found a red shirt to represent the British and we acted out the Boston Massacre.

• Boston Tea Party (we had a tea party with pound cake) – December 16, 1773

• English close Boston Port until Colonists pay back the cost of the tea – the colonists called this the Intolerable Acts
• Printing Press & Benjamin Franklin’s newspaper The Pennsylvanian Gazette

Revolutionary War Project Ideas

To help understand the printing press and how long it took to set-up to print the newspaper I came up with this project. We picked a simple thing to print “British are coming!” as I knew we’d run out of letters.

We laid them out backwards. Then Goof used a piece of paper and and book to push down to make his press print. Putting all the type in for the newspaper would have been a LOT of work!

Colonial Costume – in The Liberty Tree it explained that men usually braided or pulled back their hair and then put flour on it. It also shows the time period tricorn hats. So we made our own from felt (that we braided) and black construction paper.