Colonial Times by Joseph Volpe https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial Share Your Knowledge en-us 2018-04-05 17:25:26 UTC 2025-09-29 13:20:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png Food by Mr. Volpe joseph_volpe https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/248989469 Corn, Corn and more Corn... Corn pudding, Corn cake, Cornmeal, Corn that's been boiled, Corn that's been roasted. It is safe to say that the Colonists always had corn. They did have other things to eat, but it is important to remember that they grew, raised or traded for all their food because there were no places to purchase food. No Wegmans to grab a sub, sushi or salad. I'm not sure I would enjoy eating in Colonial Times. On one hand I LOVE eating food I grew and made myself. On the other I like variety...no mango, avocado or swiss cheese in Colonial Times, you could only had what was around you and local]]> 2018-04-05 17:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/248989469 Punishments by Jonah J. jonah_jacobstein https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252161357 School, school, and school. That is where most of the punishments come from. Some from family, the wife can be  shamed. But school still has the some of most punishments. Some punishments are the dunce cap, which is were if you do not know your lessons, you have to wear the dunce cap. The wispering sticks which is where if you whisper to a friend you had to put whispering sticks in your mouth. If you were caught biting your fingers you wold wear a card that said bitefinger baby. The house still had many punishments such as, if the wife talked back to the husban she had to get dunked in a river while the wife is srapped in a chair. If you fell asleep in      ]]> 2018-04-16 14:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252161357 Death by Jackson jackson_scholl https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252192085 Many people died like today but in many different ways. Many people died in ways that can be prevented today because now we have a lot more 🤬 and medicines that we can use. Malaria was one of the diseases that was pretty deadly and now we have medicines that cure it. Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, about 3000 children every day in Africa!!!!!!!!         ]]> 2018-04-16 15:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252192085 Clothes by Roxy https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252192086 Way back then, in colonial times, clothes were very different from what we wear now. For instance, girls had to wear these STUPID things called stays. Personally, I love to lounge around, but stays  made you sit up straight. Boys had to wear them too, but only until they were six. After that, the boys were "breeched". This custom meant they could ditch the stays for knee   length pants called breeches. Girls always had to wear their stays, even when sleeping! Today, I wouldn't wear a stay to save my life. Girls also wore shifts under their stays, and over the stays they wore  petticoats, gowns and aprons. This seems uncomfortable!]]> 2018-04-16 15:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252192086 Games kids played in the colonial times by:carrie https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252193065 Many games you play right now are the games kids played in the colonial times,such like  hide and seek,tag,and blind man's buff,and they sang and played"Here we go round mulberry bush" and"London bridge is falling down." ]]> 2018-04-16 15:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252193065 How they did their hair https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252195154 Girls kept their hair up in buns or in pig tails. But they also always covered their hair even when they where in the house too!.Now the boys I'm going to tell you about their hair styles.So the boys had their hair long and  some boys and men wear some wigs.Even the wigs were made out of a cows tail,real hair, goat hair,horse hair,or even wire!!.And some men put white powder in their wigs.today people go and get their hair done at a salon or barber shop.and back in colonial time they didn't have barber shops and salons like us.SO they cant go get their hair done in their.Now you know about the times]]> 2018-04-16 15:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252195154 Entertainment By, Camille camille_trost https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252195256 First of all, entertainment has changed a lot. In the colonial times, chasing pigs was a type of entertainment. Sometimes they held contests, whoever held the pig by the tail first, would get to bring the pig home and cook it, so they could have bacon and pork. Most of the girls sewed and played with dolls made of corn husks and dried fruit. Boys liked playing ball. The ball was made of leather, they would toss it back and forth. No basketball, soccer, football or any of those sports. All the kids played games like hide and seek, London bridge  and blind mans bluff. Some children played with things called whirligigs. Whirligigs are toys that spin. They are kind of like tops, but they have string handles. One crazy thing is you weren't allowed to go sledding, or you weren't allowed to dance! One thing for sure is that I would absolutely hate playing/living in colonial times. ]]> 2018-04-16 15:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252195256 Roads and Travel amelia_anderson https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252195786 Back then roads were much more bumpy. Did you know there was no asphalt? The roads were all dirt. People thought it was best to walk. Now there are cars and people walk much less.


by Amelia
 ]]> 2018-04-16 15:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252195786 punishments and death by jonah.L jonah_ledbetter https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252196211 PUNISHMENTS
    Back then there where a lot of punishments like if a wife talked back to her husband she would get dunked in water three times. There where a lot of school masters kept a really big stick with them most of the time so they could hit kids that miss behaved. That is not the only punishment if you did not behave. if you did not know what the teacher just said you where called the dunce you had to sit on a stool called the dunce stool and had to wear a cap called the dunce cap. sometimes you had to wear some leather eye glass frames.If you whispered to your friend  you had to put wooden sticks that where called whispering stick's in your mouth. If you did not pay attention to the teacher then you had to wear a card around your neck that said idle boy. And if you got caught biting your finger nails  then you had to wear a card that said bite finger baby around your neck. And a VERY cruel school master made you  cut small branch from a tree and then they would make you put it in your nose for 1 hour. There where a lot of other punishment's outside of school to if you broke the law. There was hanging, being killed, dunked, and more. And it is said that the first man to in the Boston stocks was the man who made them!!!!! If a wife talked back to there husband they where dunked in a pond. if you fell asleep at the meeting house. if you smiled or whispered the tithing man would take your name down and then you would have to pay a fine. WAIT. Do not go yet I said in the title that I tell yu would

DEATH
     people died like today but sometimes they did not. People died of old age but now it would not be considered OLD. back then people did not live that long and would die WAY before us. But people did not just die of old age. Sometimes they would die of punishments or traveling they would die of punishments because they stole something like a silver spoon. They would also die of traveling because some unfriendly natives attacked the mail person or they fell off a cliff.]]> 2018-04-16 15:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252196211 TRAVEL by: Liam liam_stewart https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252196319 it took me a few minutes to decide on this topic because there is so many great topics for colonial times! I love learning about these times almost as much as i would hate LIVING in them. One of the many reasons why i would hate it is how hard it was to travel. Way back then there was no cars, and there would not be any for about another 200 years. no bikes, scooters, roller skates, you name it. which leaves people with two choices: walking or riding a horse. scratch that... some people did NOT have choices. Only the richest of people had horses... or even one horse! so most people had to walk. A "healthy" person should be able to walk 40 miles in 10 hours! whew! And I just ran (and walked) the 5K. So... if there are no cars, were there roads? Yes. and no. The roads were full of holes and trees and things. In some ways the roads were  the worst way to travel. In rural areas the roads were pretty much just paths, and bridges were logs... if there were any at all!]]> 2018-04-16 15:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252196319 What they ate camille_trost https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252270226 2018-04-16 17:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252270226 Hunting rumi_blizzard https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252305542 hunting was important it was a good source of food. But in one there where rules about hunting more like a law about hunting that every man had to shoot three cows or twelve black birds between the middle of march and the last day of June. But now you can shoot what ever you want, but there are still laws about hunting like that you must get a licence but you should hunt at a time called hunting season. But I think that the law about how many animals is bad because what if people do not want to hunt? that is what I think about colonial times hunting.

By: Rumi]]> 2018-04-16 18:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252305542 What did people eat? Nathan nathan_fromme https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252690360 People eating corn as their main source they eat corn corn corn and more corn boil corn, roasted corn, corn cake and corn pudding People also knew how to plant corn very well.
People also Planted pumpkin and squash and the Indian way.They learned it by the Indians  and how to Get maple Sap from the maple trees They made maple syrup  to sweeten their food .There were no places to buy food. Here are some of the foods that they planted in colonial times vegetables and fruit seeds that they claim It came from Europe. The boys fish and men  fish they came home with Tons of different things like lobsters, clams and many other kinds of fish. the men and boys Hunted. They didn't just hunt fish and lobsters and clams they hunted rabbits, squirrels,  bear and deer. During the cold days before winter The whole family has to work extra hard they had to get all their food ready for the cold months. The meat was made in many different ways the meat was made Smoked, salted and pickled. They sliced up apples, pumpkins and peaches to dry. At my house I use the fridge and the dehydrator but in colonial days they didn't have a fridge or a Dehydrator They would have to hang apples peaches and pumpkins up As their dehydrators And for the refrigerator that youth and ice box. That's what people ate.
 
]]> 2018-04-17 17:27:49 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252690360 jobs in Colonial Times? christoph_castro https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252692014 in Colonial Times it was all hands on work. They  made their clothes with their hands. They also made Butter,Dishes,Beds,tables,soap,candles so they also made with their hands. Today we have machines two make all of it     
 ]]> 2018-04-17 17:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252692014 PLAY by Emily emily_isaacs https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252692388 Even though there was so much work to do and no machines to do it for them, kids always managed to put aside time to play. games such as tag, hide-and-seek, and Blind Man's Bluff are still being played today. Boys enjoyed Lacrosse and playing catch with leather balls. Girls made dolls out of corn husks, fabric, and other household material. at celebrations and family gatherings everyone would join in the fun!
A common sport was chasing pigs-- whoever held the pig by it's tail got the prize. imagine if, instead of kickball at the end of the year everyone was running around holding pigs by the tail? 
"team 2! team 2!" it would be cool yet sometimes annoying to play colonial games-- playing with dolls are so not my thing!   

]]> 2018-04-17 17:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252692388 Outfit styles for colonial girls and women By: Una K. una_kuo https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252692492 First of all little colonial children wore a pillow ring around there waist called a pudding,if a baby fell down the pudding will give it a nice soft landing so they don't cry,get scratched or get a skinned knee! But... at age 6 baby's wound stop wearing the Pudding. Fun Fact girls and women would bring a spin wheel every time they rode on the backs of horses. Girls were showed how to spin at 6 years old considering the fact only boys went to school girls would stay home and learn to spin clothes and clean and tighty up the house(there mothers would teach them HOW to do this). For females the time to make clothes was whenever they pleased to or needed to(so anytime they could). Colonialists made thread colonial people would plant flax.   No one bought clothes (unless they needed to) they just raised sheep instead. Everyone in the family helped make clothes not just girls.That is all there is about outfit's for colonial times .By:Una]]> 2018-04-17 17:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252692492 Transportation by Timo timo_weinberger https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252692968 I will show you how much different transportation was in the colonial days compared to now. And just to make it clear in the colonial times the colonial people didn't have cars, bikes, planes, motorcycles, motorboats and a ton of other stuff now that that's clear to you for sure I guess we can start. In the Colonial times and we could say it was Winter and the roads where filled with snow. Then the Colonial people would use a pung or a pod instead of a carriage. a pung was a sleigh pulled by two horses and a pod was the  same just pulled by one horse. And usually Colonists preferred traveling with a boat instead of a carriage, horse or oxen cause it was a lot faster. Since in the colonial times the roads where super duper narrow and they would either be muddy or dusty and cause the roads always had holes on them. Now I hope you've learned a bit of transportation in the colonial times.
   ]]> 2018-04-17 17:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252692968 School by Cloe cloe_mitchell https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252693494 Children went to Dame school first. They leaned  to read and write. after Dame school the boys went to a different school. The girls did not go to school after Dame school but they get thechd at home. In school they had punishment we also have them but not the same. If they bite there finger nels they had to where a bored that seud Bite finger Baby. don't wiser to a friend if you do you haf to wer a wiper stik in yor mouth. If you dident know your lesents your called a duns. The punishment for that you had to were a duns hat. That is school in caloneol time.]]> 2018-04-17 17:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252693494 Games by Chris christoph_castro https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252696115 kids even played hide and seek when]]> 2018-04-17 17:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/252696115 food and toys by alex alexander_davis3 https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/253125760 Corn people ate corn in colonial times they also had other foods like pumpkin and squash but all they relied on is corn nothing else just corn. In 2018 today people eat corn but not everyone eats corn just some people. In the clonial times the onaly toy thay had was the worligig.But now we have pokemon hotweles and figit spiners lego and many more!.]]> 2018-04-18 17:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/253125760 Entertainment by Matthew matthew_mcguire https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/253546058 most of all boys like playing ball it was a leather ball filled with feathers and they would play catch with it. They had tops to spin, drums to bang and had popguns to pop, they had hoops to roll, marbles to shoot. Trees to climb and icy ponds to skate on. Their skates were made with wooden runners and some kids played blind mans bluff. There was no soccer or basket ball or any sports that you might play.]]> 2018-04-19 17:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/253546058 timo_weinberger https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/253925069 2018-04-20 17:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/253925069 https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/254549311 2018-04-23 18:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/254549311 https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/254562022 2018-04-23 18:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/254562022 https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/254562260 2018-04-23 18:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/254562260 Medicine By Nina ninapaw_hutko https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/255174077 Medicine was VERY weird in the colonial times. For example "If someone has a high fever, Cut their nails and put them in a bag of fine linen. Put a live eel in a tub of water. Tie the bag around the eels neck. The eel will die, and the sick man will get better." Doesn't that sound WEIRD!? Well...in my opinion it does. Some people got water and called it medicine. And they thought water was poisonous at the time. I think saying water is medicine is really cruel. So DON'T do it!! Every family grew their own herbs in their gardens. The herbs would help things heal faster. In my opinion I HATE the idea of water as medicine. It's like saying a dog is a cat! But, I HATE lies. I get them at home all the time. What i'm trying to say is DON'T LIE! Be honest. ]]> 2018-04-25 11:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/255174077 PUNISHMENTS campbell_wright1 https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/255348440 By,Campbell
If people broke the certen laws they would be punished
for example, if someone stole a silver spoon they could be put to death. People who broke the laws got whipped at the whipping post another punishment if someone broke the laws could be dunked in water. Some people had to sit in stocks other people had to wear cards around their neck that told what there crimes were. ]]> 2018-04-25 17:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/255348440 Law. (By Topenga) topenga_west https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/255357710   In Colonial times,the Law was VERY strict as well as weird. For example,It was against the law for a backer to bake bad bread,or for the brewer to brew bad beer. There were laws for every day of the week... special laws for Sunday. On Sunday,EVERYONE had to church (the meetinghouse)even baby's!Because baby's are to young and not able to sit up straight on the cold wooden benches of the Meetinghouse,they where put in wooden cages (like playpens)where they could lie down.In colonial times,there was a law that said that every man had to work on the rods a few days a month. The colonial laws were very strict! ]]> 2018-04-25 17:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/255357710 campbell_wright1 https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/258493177 2018-05-07 12:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/joseph_volpe/colonial/wish/258493177