Ideas for having a Gold Rush Party at home including meal and music suggestions as well as fun and educational activities for kids.

Requirements Objective Description Yeeee Haaaaa! There's GOLD in them there hills! This great theme day activity will be one of your camp's summer favorites. As with all great theme days, dress-up, role playing, and enthusiastic staff make all the difference in the world. Here's a framework for you to use and modify at your camp.

This is one of my culminating activities for our gold rush unit. After we learned about the three routes to California, the tools miners us...

Skyler Persarll and Isabel Clark wear cowboy hats as they pan for gold with help from Bill Zimmerman of the Menifee Valley Historical Associ...

My family had our reunion a month ago in the Black Hills of South Dakota (you know, where Mt. Rushmore is?) This is only a few hours from w...

Hello! Today let's talk about the fun part of the Gold Rush Miner Birthday Party! The part that's all about the kids! Because lets be ho...

Two Questions: 1) Do you teach about the Gold Rush? 2) Have you read this book? It's a nonfiction book that is full of interesting facts that keep the kids engaged while learning. Last year was the first year that I brought it into my classroom, and this year I picked up a class set of the books from Scholastic. My very smart teammate came up with this paper bag book activity for the kids, full of hidden compartments and secret flaps for kids to write on. It takes 4 white or brown lunch size…

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Make this amazing liquid gold slime for a sensory play slime recipe with a dazzling, metallic twist! This is so beautifully mesmerising that you’ll be fighting the kids to play with it too! As you know I can’t keep the kids away from the slime making supplies for more than a few days at a...Read More »

Check out this fun free Gold Rush Word Search, free for use at home or in schoolThis is a printable Gold Rush Word Search pdf...