PART 1 - If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern

If you

lived

in the

colonial

era by am

mcgovern

illustrated by june atani this is the first

part

of a series of videos if you

lived

in the

colonial

era in this video the following questions will be answered when were the colonial

times

what were the colonial people like where did they buy the people their clothes were there a special time to make clothes how they used their hair when were colonial

times

colonial times were a long time ago colonial times began about 70 years after Columbus discovered America they began when some colonists came from Spain to live in a colony in America that was in the year 1565.

Colonial times ended when the 13 English colonies became the United States that was in the year 1776. This book does not talk about all the years that made up the colonial era, it does not talk about the 13 colonies look at the timeline at the bottom of the page the

part

that is in color shows the years this book is about look at the map the part that is in color is New England this book is about life in the colonies from New England what was it? Did you like to live then? Boys and girls in colonial times did the same things that you do today.

Did they go to school? They had to worry about their table manners. What did they do on Sundays? What games did they play? What happened if they got sick? This book tells you, it also tells you about their work, their food, their houses and their clothes. This book will help you imagine what it was like to be a girl or boy in colonial times, the New England colonies later became the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island. massachusetts new hampshire vermont and maine what colonial people were like when you look in the mirror you see yourself if you lived in colonial times you would look the same as you do now but you would wear your hair differently and your clothes would be different too, even baby clothes It was different that clothes in colonial times had different names if a baby fell, it fell right on his pudding a pudding was a soft pillow that was placed around the baby's waist to prevent him from getting hurt when boys and girls had six years.

Since then they stopped wearing baby clothes. They dressed just like their mothers and fathers. Where did people buy their clothes? Most people in colonial times did not buy their clothes anywhere. Most people made their own clothes. They planted flax to make flax thread. They raised sheep for wool, everyone in the family helped make the clothes, grandmother's job was to card the wool, children gathered flowers, berries and roots to make dyes to color the thread, people wore brightly colored clothes in colonial times, yellow, red, purple, blue. the girls wore bright red cloaks and hoods the boys wore brightly colored stockings and caps the girls and boys went to the woods and brought home armfuls of goldenrod and birch bark to make yellow pokeberry dye to make red iris for make purple logwood to make blue the dye was boiled in the largest pot in the house the children stirred the dye with a long stick so that lumps would not form the girls and women worked at the spinning wheel the girls learned to spin when They were six years old the younger sisters also helped they learned to knit as soon as they could hold a pair of knitting needles, the four year old girls could knit stockings and hats, the boys and men did their share of the work, their job was to knit cloth on a loom, then the women took the fabric and made clothes for the whole family. sewing was done by hand there was a special time to make clothes the time to make clothes was all the time people worked when they could when the children took the sheep to the field they carried a small loom and then they could weave while watching the sheep when the women They would visit, they would bring their spinning wheels with them, they would tie the spinning wheel to the back of their horse and then they could spin while they visited and no one could tell that they were wasting their time, how they wore their hair, the girls kept their hair completely covered.

At that time, even at home, they wore hats and hoods or scarves, children had long hair, when wigs became fashionable, most men and even some children in big cities wore them, they wore wigs made of real hair and wigs made from cow tails. they wore horse hair wigs and goat hair wigs they even wore wigs made of wire some men put white powder on their wigs on a windy day the dust was blown away like snow and that is the end of the first part of this series of videos if you lived in colonial times Thank you all for watching