Today we are going to be looking at a Peaceful Press morning basket for American history specifically if you are using The Playful Pioneers from The Peaceful Press!

So what is a morning basket?

You may have heard the term morning collective or other homeschool moms talking about their morning basket and wonder what exactly does it entail.

Essentially a morning basket is a place to gather things that you want to include in your learning time, typically to begin your day, but that can be used any time and is portable so that it can be used anywhere.

These are some wonderful resources from The Peaceful Press that you can easily implement in your morning time to start your days well.

Some elements to include:

The Playful Pioneers Morning Time Menu- A Playful Pioneer Resource for Family Connection.

The Playful Pioneers Scripture Memory Cards- The Scripture Cards are a set of 30 cards. Five downloadable sheets features the coordinating bible verses from our best-selling Playful Pioneers early learning curriculum!

Simply print, cut, and laminate, for a beautiful way to keep scripture in your heart and the hearts of your children.

The Playful Pioneers Timeline Cards- Keeping a timeline is a way to provide a visual reminder of people, places and events you have studied. A timeline can be a blank sketchbook which you fill with dates and notes about history, it can be a ribbon along a wall with figures or pictures affixed to in chronological order, or it could even be a simple clothesline lined with notes written on index cards and placed in chronological order using clothespins. There are many simple ways to make a timeline work for your family.

The beauty of a timeline is that it creates a framework to make sense of all the books you are reading within the grand scope of history. For instance, although you might read a book about Harriet Tubman one week, and a book about the French Revolution the next, noting the events or people on a timeline can help you make connections about how these people and events fit together.

Native American Tribal Memory Cards- The Native American Fact Cards Pack includes paintings and information about many of the Native American tribes who first settled North America. Paired with beautiful paintings of tribe members by early American artists, these cards provide an introduction to the fascinating world of indigenous people in America.

The cards can be cut to create an artist matching game or used full-sized as memory cards. The pack also includes a list of additional resources as well as a map depicting where many of the tribes first lived. This pack is a perfect addition to your year of studying pioneers with The Playful Pioneers curriculum and a beautiful overview of 20 prominent tribes.

Through the Season Guides: Summer, Spring, Winter, & Autumn-

Peaceful Press through the Seasons

Four guides to make the most of the seasons

Summer Guide

The Peaceful Press: Summer Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of growing and thriving. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and projects to make savoring summer a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your 3-7-year-old learners.

Autumn Guide

The Peaceful Press: Autumn Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of harvest and thankfulness. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring autumn a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.

Winter Guide

The Peaceful Press: Winter Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of comfort and sustenance. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring winter a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.

Spring Guide

The Peaceful Press: Spring Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of blossoms and rainbows. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and projects to make savoring spring a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.

They can be purchased individually or as a bundle however the bundle is the best value.

Calendar Bundle- The Peaceful Press: Calendar Bundle is a FREE preschool resource for learning dates!

You can see more Peaceful Press Preschool Resources in our Early Learning Collection!

Chore & Routine Pack- We all know that good habits are an important part of a successful homeschool experience, but sometimes we need a little help. This chore pack is the perfect resource for making good habits fun. The chore pack includes a habit tracker, 116 different cards in 47 pages of color, and black and white printables. We've also included 10 handy instruction guides to help teach your children the step-by-step skills for caring for their environment. This updated bundle now includes a habits checklist and habit tracker for parents. The 47 Page chore pack is only $7. All you do is print, cut, and laminate!

The Good Gospel: A-Z Bible Resource for Young Children- The Good Gospel is an A-Z gospel devotional guide intended for use in preschool Sunday School, or as a weekly accompaniment to The Peaceful Preschool. The guide includes 26 lessons with verses, crafts, Bible stories, declarations, and fine art geared towards helping young children connect with the stories of Jesus in a Sunday School or home setting.

Fine Art Memory Game- Our Peaceful Press Art Memo Game is a lovely way of working on picture study, visual processing, and memory with your child. Included are fine art prints, along with corresponding title and artist, which coincide with The Kind Kingdom, T he Precious People and The Playful Pioneers. All you do is print, laminate, and cut, for a beautiful and multi-purpose learning activity with your child.

The best part is that many of these resources can be found on

The Peaceful Press website for $5 and some of them are even free!

Be sure to check them out and get started on your morning basket today!

Do you use a morning basket or have a morning collective time?

What are some of your favorite things to include in it?

Playful Pioneers American History Morning Basket