Suggested Activities
1. Travel Writing
Pretend to be a travel writer and describe the village of Kaskaskia.
- What might you have seen, heard, smelled, or touched?
- Where might you go to find a glimmer of the past in the present?
- Create your own research/field trip.
2. The Village Plan
Develop your own French colonial village based on what you have learned from the narratives, Maps, Objects, and Side by Side.
- Draw a plan for the village.
- Describe the inhabitants of the village.
- Go into a house and describe the architecture, the objects, the smells, and the lifestyle of the inhabitants.
- Write a day-in-the-life of one of the inhabitants.
3. Estate Inventory
Write a mock inventory for a house that you imagine as part of your village plan.
- What do the people of the household own?
- Where did the household objects come from?
- Draw a picture of some of the most important objects in the inventory.
For an example of estate inventories from the 1700s refer to Clues to the Past 
![[HOME]](/exhibits/athome/images/home-50.gif)
![[1700 Home]](/exhibits/athome/images/1700/home.gif)
![[Previous]](/exhibits/athome/images/c-prev.gif)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
![[Next]](/exhibits/athome/images/c-next.gif)
© Illinois State Museum 31-Dec-96