Apples 4 the Teacher has activities children can do online or on printouts. The website offers two Daniel Boone coloring pages: one of his face and another of him in action as a pioneer. Color using the online coloring tools and print out the finished product, or print out the pages with just the outlines and allow children or others to color them in using crayons, colored pencils or markers.
Boone lived in a log cabin and famously built his secluded home far from other settlers. Make a simple log cabin by cutting off the top of a 1- or 2-liter milk carton so there are only 5 inches of carton. Cut off the very top of the carton that is glued together, then cover the cut area with tape to make it look like the roof of a cabin. Cut several 12-inch pieces of newspaper. Wrap them around a pencil and secure them with a little glue at the end, then remove the pencil and allow to dry. These will be your logs. Paint each with brown paint, then allow to dry. Glue each "log" to the sides of the milk carton, trimming if needed. Your log cabin is now complete, unless you wish to further embellish it by adding windows or doors made of construction paper and glued to the cabin.
Boone covered a great deal of ground in his travels and adventures, and his entire route is featured on a Wilderness Road Map provided on a National Park Service webpage. Print this map out, enlarge it if desired, and glue it to a piece of cardboard. Once dry, turn to cardboard over and trace lines to make a grid. Each of these grid pieces will be one piece of the puzzle. Cut out each grid piece and mix them up, then hand them to children and have them put the puzzle together.
One of the first pioneers to explore westward, Boone encountered a lot of wild, unexplored frontier. Make a shoebox diorama to represent the frontier while learning about Boone. Take a shoebox and color the inside with paint to set the background. Use blue for the sky, white for clouds (or use cotton balls instead) and brown for dirt. Cut out shapes of trees from construction paper and glue them in. You can also cut out shapes of wild animals like bears or deer, or simply place small plastic toys in the box instead. Now you have a homemade replica of what Boone saw on his westward travels.