Mayflower Voyage Map Activity for Kids - 3D

Children will learn history as they make a map of the Mayflower Voyage to learn and celebrate Thanksgiving. Mayflower Craft Template and directions included.

Thanksgiving is a holiday filled with historical tradition, food, and fun! Use our Mayflower Voyage Map Activity to teach your children about this historical voyage. It’s easy to make with a few scissor cuts, coloring and gluing. I love how the boat stands up, to make a 3D craft. It looks like the Mayflower is sailing across the map!

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Mayflower Voyage Thanksgiving Map Activity

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Mayflower Voyage Map Thanksgiving Kids Craft (1)

Supplies:

Scissors
Glue
White and light blue paper
Crayons, pencils, or markers
Mayflower Map Template (Available towards the end of this post)

Directions:

The directions with photos are included with the printable template.

Print out the Mayflower Map template on the light blue paper and the Map Pieces template on white paper. If you don’t have a colored printer use the second set of templates with the different shapes in the Map Key instead of the different colored stars.

First, the students will color and cut out the Map Pieces.

Next, have students glue the Map Pieces onto their Mayflower Map template.

North America goes on the left, on top of the “North America” sign found on the Mayflower Map template. •Europe goes on the right, on top of the “Europe” sign found on the Mayflower Map template.

Finally, the students can glue the Mayflower ship on their map. It goes in the center, above the “Atlantic Ocean” sign found on the Mayflower Map template. Students need to fold the bottom rectangle at a 90 degree angle to make a foot on the boat. Glue the bottom of the foot down so the boat stands up. The edge of the foot should be closest to the top of the page.

Optional: Students could draw a line from Europe to North America showing the path the Mayflower sailed.

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🛶 A Mayflower FAQ

1. How do we make the Mayflower Map Craft?
Print, color, cut, and glue! Kids can decorate their own map and sail the paper Mayflower from England to America—learning geography and history as they play.

2. Why did the Pilgrims land at Plymouth instead of Virginia?
Strong storms pushed their ship off course, so they landed farther north than planned—at a place they named Plymouth.

3. How many people were on the Mayflower?
About 100 passengers and 30 crew members made the long, rough trip across the Atlantic in 1620.