Select a theme for your artifacts box.
Find artifacts around your home. If your lesson is about Native Americans, old jewelry, arrowheads or moccasins are good artifacts to use.
Place the artifacts in a shoe box with a lid.
Call on one student and give them a blindfold. Let the student touch the artifact and guess what it is. Repeat until all the artifacts are used.
Open the artifacts box and pass it around the class. Let the students touch the items. Ask the students if they know the name of each item and what it was used for.
Explain the actual item name and use to the students. Explain the importance of each artifact.
Gather the artifacts back into the box and start with the lesson.