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Follow-up Activities

When you get back from the Mystic Seaport you can:

Create your own fishing game at home.  Have the children make their own fish out of paper and use a stick, pencil or any long, thin object with string and a paper clip attached to catch them.

Make a boat out of a big cardboard box.  Let the children use their imagination to design and decorate the boat.  Use a broomstick and a pillowcase for the sail and mast and a pie plate for the ship’s wheel.  Make sailor's hats out of newspaper and sail the mighty seas!

Talk about the differences in lifestyles between today and what they saw during their visit.  Do they think life is easier today?  Do they wish we did anything "the old way?"


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