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Arts and crafts materials for Tacoma-area kids

We're hosting Craft Saturdays at the Museum.

We are offering heritage craft activities. Pick up your activity kit from the museum on designated Saturdays.
 
Spring 2025 Craft Events
March 29 - Homemade Harmonica
May 17 - Old Town Craft & Music Fest
 
Find event details on our Facebook page.
Instructional videos for past craft activities are available on the Museum's YouTube channel.

We're bringing the museum to you.

Drop in at Tacoma events for free children's craft activities with Job Carr Cabin Museum.

You'll find our team at community events throughout the city, including the Parks Tacoma, Proctor Farmers Market, Tacoma Public Library, and other area locations.
 
Museum crafts are sponsored by Gray Lumber Company.

Perspectives in Old Town

Find out about the people and places that were important to the history of this area with our Perspectives in Old Town Scavenger Hunt. Along the route, you'll learn more about the Puyallup people and the immigrants who settled in this area during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 
This printable walking route begins and ends at Job Carr Cabin Museum in Old Town Park -- 2350 N 30th St, Tacoma.

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Old Town Scavenger Hunt

Take a walk through the Old Town Tacoma neighborhood to learn about Job Carr, the transcontinental railroad, and the industries that helped the City of Tacoma to grow in the 1800s. Along your route, you'll visit the location of Tacoma's oldest restaurant, first church, and first schoolhouse. 
This printable walking route begins and ends at Job Carr Cabin Museum in Old Town Park -- 2350 N 30th St, Tacoma.

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A Day In The Life of a Pioneer Child

Find out more about daily life for Tacoma children in the 1870s in this 4-part series.

Morning Routines

Starting the Day

What style of clothing did pioneer children wear?
What types of chores did kids do?
What did they eat for breakfast?

School Days

Tacoma's First Schools

What did pioneer children learn at school?
What did kids eat for lunch?
What did they play at recess?

Entertainment

Fun & Games

What types of toys and games pioneer kids play?
What did children do on rainy days?
What kind of music did they listen to?

Evening Routines

Hygiene & Bedtime

What did pioneer children eat for supper?
How did kids clean up at the end of the day?
How did they sleep?

Crossword Puzzle

Review

Test your knowledge with a crossword puzzle
All answers can be found in the 4-part Day In The Life series

What Was Job Carr's Life Like Before He Moved West?

Learn at Home Lesson 1 - Designed for 3rd and 4th grade students, this lesson plan includes reading, social studies, writing and art. It provides students with an opportunity to learn about Job Carr’s life before he traveled west along the Oregon Trail. Students conduct a close reading of a first-person historical narrative, complete a timeline of sequential events, and create an illustrated storyboard of these events. 
 
This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

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Where Was The Oregon Trail?

Learn at Home Lesson 2 - Designed for 4th grade students, this lesson plan includes math, reading, writing, and social studies. It provides students with an opportunity to learn about important landmarks along the Oregon Trail. Students use a grid map to plot a route across the western United States, complete a close reading activity about Oregon Trail landmarks, and write an opinion paragraph about which landmark was most important to the pioneers.
 
This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

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What Did Job Carr See And Do When He Arrived In Puget Sound?

Learn at Home Lesson 3 - Designed for 4th grade students, this lesson plan includes reading, social studies and art. It encourages students to think critically about what the Puget Sound area looked like when settlers first began to arrive. It provides students with an opportunity to compare and contrast primary and secondary historical sources.
 
This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

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What Would It Be Like For Job Carr To Travel Through Puget Sound? 
Part A

Learn at Home Lesson 4, Part A - Designed for 4th grade students, this lesson plan includes social studies, P.E., math, and writing. It provides students with an opportunity to learn about daily life and transportation in Washington territory for the era prior to statehood.
In Part A, students increase their knowledge of local geography, maps, and trip planning to understand how tribal members and early settlers traveled around Puget Sound.
This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

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What Would It Be Like For Job Carr To Travel Through Puget Sound? 
Part B

Learn at Home Lesson 4, Part B - Designed for 4th grade students, this lesson plan includes social studies, P.E., math, and writing. It provides students with an opportunity to learn about daily life and transportation in Washington territory for the era prior to statehood.
In Part B, students write a narrative story about an imagined journey during the 1860s, before the arrival of the transcontinental railroad.
This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

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How Has Tacoma Grown?

Learn at Home Lesson 5 - Designed for 4th grade students, this lesson plan includes social studies, reading, and math. Students examine historical photographs to learn more about the development of the city of Tacoma, including the importance of the transcontinental railroad. They compare and contrast the past with the present by analyzing a historical advertisement. Students also use census data from 1870 to 2010 to graph the population growth of Tacoma.
 
This material is adapted from the Museum's award-winning traveling trunk curriculum for schools.

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Activity Pages

Downloadable resources for school or home

Dot-to-Dot

Travel the Oregon Trail

Can you help Job Carr follow the dots along the Oregon Trail map?

Word Search

Native American Tribes

Can you find the names of the tribes Job Carr may have met on his journey west?

Maze

Tacoma to Steilacoom

Can you help Job Carr find his way?

Word Search

Railroad

Can you find the words about trains?

Word Mining

Oregon Trail

Can you use the letters to create new words?

Word Match

Pioneer Vocabulary

Can you connect the Oregon Trail word pairs?

Word Scramble

Pioneers on Puget Sound

Can you unscramble the pioneer words?

Crossword

Job Carr's Life and Times

Can you solve the clues to find out more about Job Carr?

Nature Riddles

Brain Teasers

Can you solve these word puzzles?

Board Game

The Great Mail Race

Can you be the first to deliver the letter?

Job's Cabin

Coloring Page

Job Carr

Coloring Page

Bear

Coloring Page

Cabin With Apple Tree

Coloring Page

Cabin with Mountain

Coloring Page

Cabin at Night

Coloring Page

Job and Cabin

Coloring Page

Oregon Trail

Coloring Page

Fishing

Coloring Page

Resources for students and families

Arts and crafts materials for Tacoma-area kids

We're hosting Craft Saturdays at the Museum.

We're bringing the museum to you.

Drop in at Tacoma events for free children's craft activities with Job Carr Cabin Museum.

Perspectives in Old Town

Find out about the people and places that were important to the history of this area with our Perspectives in Old Town Scavenger Hunt. Along the route, you'll learn more about the Puyallup people and the immigrants who settled in this area during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Take a walk through the Old Town Tacoma neighborhood to learn about Job Carr, the transcontinental railroad, and the industries that helped the City of Tacoma to grow in the 1800s. Along your route, you'll visit the location of Tacoma's oldest restaurant, first church, and first schoolhouse.

A Day In The Life of a Pioneer Child

Find out more about daily life for Tacoma children in the 1870s in this 4-part series.

Activity Pages

Downloadable resources for school or home

Job Carr

Cabin With Apple Tree

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