You choose one book in the "Little House on the Prairie" series per month and have everyone in your group read it. My house could accommodate 20 kids, so ~6 families.
Sept - Little House in the Big Woods
Oct - Little House on the Prairie
Nov - Farmer Boy
Dec - On the Banks of Plumb Creek
Jan - By the Shores of Silver Lake
Feb - The Long Winter
Mar - Little Town on the Prairie
Apr - These Happy Golden Years
May - The First Four Years
Prairie
Primer is the book I used to jump start our Prairie Parties. For my family the book wasn't academically challenging enough to use as a stand-alone curriculum. But it really gave me ideas on how to pull activities from the series. The book is available at our library - ACPL. Each family selected any topic from the book of that month to do an activity with everyone. Everyone brought a
dish to share for lunch after the party was over.
Examples of
activities that moms chose:
Butter making
with a ball jar and whole milk (shaking)
Using a washboard
and tub to wash an item of clothing
Taste testing
real maple syrup vs. imitation
A presentation
on hibernation of bears
Making a
pumpkin pie from scratch
Quilting
Candlemaking
A lesson on
Native Americans
A lesson on bee
“dancing” and taste testing different types of honey (clover, etc.)
Bonnet making
(kids cut it out and moms sewed it together at home)
A lesson on
square dancing
