United States--Rhode Island and South Carolina

Rhode Island is so small that you can fit 425 of them inside of Alaska!  It was the 13th state to ratify the constitution.  We made Rhode Island Johnny Cakes for our activity.  It was such an easy recipe and the kids ate them with jam or honey or syrup. 

The kids loved the fact that venus flytraps are only grown in North and South Carolina.  The civil war began in South Carolina and several battles of the Revolutionary War were fought there.  One fort they fought from was built from the logs of palmetto trees.  When the British shot their canon balls at the fort, the balls sank right into the spongy palmetto wood.  The flag of South Carolina has a picture of the palmetto tree.  We made a painting of their flag.  The kids made a stencil of the tree and a crescent moon and glued it to a piece of paper.  Then they painted the paper blue and removed the stencils when the paint was dry.  A white image was left.