Encourage children to learn about their state capital by setting aside an hour for them to create two time lines. Use poster board or white art paper for this craft and ensure each participant receives two identical pieces. Inform kids that one time line is to focus on Austin and its aspects important to running the state. The other is personal in nature and intended to depict their daily personal lives. Focus on home, school, extra-curricular activities and church.
If interested in engaging young children about educational aspects of the state in a fun way use common identifiers that unite all Texans such as the state flag, bird, phrase, motto or meaning of the name Texas in various craft projects. Use construction paper or poster board, paints or markers and colored pencils to create paper name plates, cardboard flags or flowering pots with the state flower painted directly on the terra cotta material.
Popular for its profound appreciation for anything involving ranch-life as well as sports, cows to horses and youth flag leagues to the pros, Texas takes both cowboys and the NFL seriously. Inspire students to learn about state history by bringing some rope into class and crafting a doll. With this and a few other items complete the project. Recycle brown cardboard boxes or use the insides of cereal boxes to create footballs. Decorate with colors reflecting the state's NFL team(s).
Break students up into teams and instruct each group to bring in a piece of poster board then fold into three same-size sections. Identify each area into a particular category related to The Alamo. For example, history of the area, the battle at The Alamo and how life changed after the battle ended. Supply children with magazines to cut out pictures representative of the stories they are telling. Have all teams present their boards to classmates.