Mount Rushmore Craft

We are currently studying the state of South Dakota.  I searched high and low for a Mount Rushmore craft and I did find one, but I didn't care for it because it involves making crayon rubbings of coins in the shape of a mountain.  This would be a really neat idea if Theodore Roosevelt was the president on the dime, but Franklin Roosevelt is on the dime and I just can't get past that problem.  I don't see the point in doing the craft if it isn't accurate in this respect.

So, I printed coloring pages of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore from the Crayola website.  If you are looking for unique educational coloring pages, that is the place to find them.  They have all of the presidents and many more great pages for educational purposes.

The coloring pages have information about the presidents at the bottom of the page.  This is great because it gave us an opportunity to learn a little about the presidents while creating our own models of Mount Rushmore.

After C and R colored the presidents, we cut them out and glued them in the correct order on brown paper grocery bags we had cut open.  The presidents are not proportionate, but the goal was really to find the correct presidents and learn a little about them and Mount Rushmore, so I wasn't concerned about the proportions.

C and R also colored in some of the mountain and some trees.  Finally, they glued the information about each president on the opposite side of the bag.

R has a colorful Mount Rushmore!

C stuck with stone colors - he's the traditionalist.

We read a book from the Level 1 Read To Read Wonders of America series titled Mount Rushmore by Marion Dane Bauer.  This book is great for young children.  We learned some interesting things about Mount Rushmore, but I think the favorite fact from the book is that Washington's nose is twenty feet long.