Little House on the Prairie - Week 3

We are currently reading our way through The Little House book series while using The Prairie Primer as our guide. We are in our third week of The Little House on the Prairie. We ended up with another jammie day as well as a looming hurricane to get our school work done. No hurricane days for us:)

Being stuck inside because of a ton of rain seemed to be a good time to start this little house quilt block that I found from Wee Folks (link below). It is small enough to finish in a day or two and it had a free printable template, which I love.

J picked the fabrics that she wanted to use from my fabric stash (thanks to my mother:). We traced the pieces on the wonder under and irons them onto the block.  She then sewed around the pieces using her machine. She loves her machine and trying to get her to hand sew is difficult.

Because she wanted to use her machine, she did the quick quilting of her block. This is her cabin block sewn on the machine. It turned out cute.

I decided to make my own cabin quilt as well. Mine os on the left. I finished everything except the binding.

The next project was thanks to her dad. I asked him to help her make a popsicle stick little house for J's peg people that she and her sister painted. I figured since her father had a hurricane day, it was a great time to get him involved. Little did I know what I was asking?....

He brought out the power tools and saws and helped her create a little house masterpiece! There is no way if I had helped J make it that it would have looked like this - wow! My DH used a tutorial from Almost Unschoolers (link below) to base this house on.

I was thinking a simple house of popsicle sticks and he was thinking doll house! The nest news is J loves it. And besides the sawing and such, she truly helped glue all of the sticks and such down. It was a great father/daughter project for them on this hurricane day:)

J wrote a letter home to Laura's family about how she missed them and her home in the woods. J had some experience with this because of our recent moves.

We had two great days of nice weather which probably sums up our fall season. The days were just calling us to do school outside. J took her little house outside and played while I read from our chapter books.

I found a simple 2 page comprehension test on the chapters we just read. I had her complete it just to see if she is understanding what we are reading. She did fine:)

Lastly, we read the chapter on the wolf pack that surrounded the little house and howled at the moon. How scary! They didn't even have a real door, just a quilt hanging in the doorway. Talk about being scared. But it seemed like Laura knew that her Pa would protect them and it turned out fine. I just can't imagine the odds that were against them on the prairie! Wow.

Links

Wee Folk Art - has the free template for the cabin quilt that we used for our block. It was originally made from wool felt but we used fabric.

One Crafty Mumma - has the popsicle house that I was thinking about, easy to do.

Almost Unschoolers - has the version of the house that my DH used.