Here is the next in our colonial america for kids unit as part of our history for kids.
This week we are learning about the Dutch & Swedish settlers in America.
Dutch & Swedish Settles History
Heres a little history for you to set the stage.
They wanted beaver pelts.
The Dutch actually lived very comfortable with religious freedoms & government representatives at home!
The Dutch New Indies Company appointed Peter Stuyvesant to fix it up!
He was not very popular, but he fixed it and raised money for police by taxing imported liquor.
(The only part of the wall would later be known to the world as Wall Street!
)In 1664 English ships did come and as the colonists refused to fight with Stuyvesant, they surrendered.
New Amsterdam became an English territory and was renamed New York.
My son even got to try milking a cow by hand.
We made our own butter by shaking cream in a Tupperware for about 15 minutes.
Then we shaped it into a biscuit.
The kids thought that was hilarious; it tasted good too!
Swedish Colonial American Settlers
Settlers first constructed log cabins in 1638 in New Sweden.
We had a busy week so we didnt do as many activities.
it’s possible for you to still get them used on Amazon or through a good local library.
Im so glad I did!
There are 9 in the series about Colonial Life.
A kid walks your kids through a 23 minute visit to that aspect of Colonial Life.
My son loved the visual!
