Fold-Up Tea Chest Craft

A grown-up reads the steps and helps cut out the net. Children fold every dashed line, glue the tabs without gluing the lid and put the fact cards inside to read again later.

Two pages. Page 1 is a tea chest net with a lid, a bottom and glue tabs, with each side 1.5 inches. Page 2 has 5 steps and 4 fact cards, such as Colonists did not want to pay a tax on tea and The tea came in 342 wooden chests.

Yes. We made it for Kindergarten to 3rd Grade holiday activities, and it works the same at home or at school. Families print it for one child and keep it where they will use it every day. Teachers print a copy per student or one for the whole room, whichever the day needs.

1 printable resource, free to preview. There are 30 Boston Tea Party resources in all, from Preschool to 5th Grade, gathered on our Boston Tea Party activities page. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for Kindergarten to 3rd Grade students, roughly ages 5-9. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Nothing here assumes a classroom of 25, so they work the same one-to-one at the kitchen table as they do in a Kindergarten to 3rd Grade classroom, a learning center, or a tutoring session.