Jamestown for Kids Unit with Fun Activities

August 10, 2025
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Discover what it was like to live in the first permanent English Settlement in America with this fun, engaging Jamestown for Kids unit study. Explore this history lesson for kids of all ages from kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students. Children will learn about the Jamestown Settlement of 1607 with these fun projects, Jamestown activities, and free Jamestown Worksheets.

Discover what it was like to live in the first permanent English Settlement in America with this fun, engaging Jamestown for Kids unit study. Explore this history lesson for kids of all ages from kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students. Children will learn about the Jamestown Settlement of 1607 with these fun projects, Jamestown activities, and free Jamestown Worksheets.

Jamestown for Kids

Make history come alive for children with this engaging history lesson for kids! In our Jamestown for Kids unit you will use fun Jamestown activities and free Jamestown printables to head back in time to the early 1600s as the English set sail for America, the men were hoping to find gold. They created a triangular shape fort for protection.  Learn about Captain John Smith, the Powhatan Native American tribe, what it was like in Colonial America, and how this Virginia settlement was the capital for over 90 years.  This is such a fun, engaging American History lesson for kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 students.

Our hands-on history lessons for kids with fun activities make learning exciting and memorable, and I can’t believe how much we’ve discovered already! This is part of our lesson on america original colonies which includes Jamestown worksheets and pilgrim activities.

Jamestown Activities

I always get so excited to learn alongside my kids! This history unit is filled with Jamestown colony activities that will make the colonial America time period come alive for kids! This is the first less on our  Colonial America for kids study.
Jamestown Settlement - Colnial Gruel

Colonial Food

To explore what it was like to live in the Jamestown Settlement we ate gruel for breakfast. It is pretty much flavored water. We learned that the colonists in early Jamestown were mainly ‘gentlemen’ and they didn’t want to plant crops or work. Many starved. The only food they had to eat was what they could grow in their garden or hunt. The kids decided Colonial food wasn’t that great.

Jamestown Settlement - Wattle & Daub House

Jamestown Colony Activities

We made a miniature Wattle & Daub House to better understand Colonial American homes (click to see directions on how we made it).

Jamestown Settlement - Colonial Tin Lantern

Jamestown Activity

We made our own tin lantern. We got the idea from Great Colonial America Projects You Can Build Yourself. Draw a simple design on the can; Goofy opted to make shapes. You fill a large empty tin can with water & freeze overnight. Then you use towels to keep it from moving. Use a hammer & a nail to make holes along your pattern line. (This is GREAT practice using a hammer, improves hand/eye coordination, small motor skills, and more!)

Allow the ice to melt and the can to dry out. Put wax in bottom of can and place tee light in bottom (wax is to hold tee light candle in place). Light your candle & enjoy. It is so cool! Remember this project requires close adult supervision. And fire should never be left to burn unsupervised.

Jamestown Books for Kids

Here are some great books to add to your week learning about Jamestown:

My absolute favorite book that thoroughly explains Jamestown is The Jamestown Colony by Brendan January; it is great for K-4th grade. The book explains the history, Native American, John Smith, fort, tough times, Lord De La Ware, tobacco farms, Opechancanough attack on colony, King James I retaking control of colony from London Company, and the end of the colony in 1699 due to a fire.

Jamestown Settlement - free history worksheets

Jamestown Worksheets

We’ve done several lapbooks this year so I decided it was time to mix it up a little. To remember our study of Colonial Times we made a Life In Colonial America Book. Since I am making the sheets as we go this download includes the pages of the book we made this week: Jamestown, Wattle & Daub homes, Pocahontas, Metalworking, and a blank page (in case you make your own creative project!). There are two choices in the download: #1 with text to trace about that particular aspect of Colonial life or #2 blank for your child to write. Both choices have a large box with space for your child’s drawing or picture of a project you did. Goofy is so proud of his book! 

 

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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