Planting Corn
To illustrate one way the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims grow crops, have the children crust chocolate wafers to resemble soil. Then, add a piece of candy corn and a gummy fish. This reinforces the idea that fish (fertilizer) helped the corn to grow. There's also a short finger play to go along with the activity: Pull the fish from the sea./Plant them with a seed./Makes the corn grow way past me./What a great little deed!
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