1. Exploring Log Cabins
at Log Cabin Village

2. Outline Exploring Log Cabins I. Experience IV. Projects
1. A Visit to Log Cabin Village Drawing log cabins
2. Look Inside a Log Cabin Lincoln’s Cabin
3. At Log Cabin Village
A. Historic Interpreters
B. Exploring Cabins
II. Introduction
1. What is a log cabin?
2. Building a log cabin
3. What is inside a log cabin?
4. Log cabins today
III. Enrichment
1. Fun facts about log cabins
A. First American log homes
B. Lofts in log cabins
C. South facing
D. Mud and moss insulation
E. Presidents in log cabins *All IFW programs are TEKS aligned
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3. Exploring Log Cabins
Experience: The Visit
A visit to Log Cabin Village is a trip back in time. During this new program, expressly created for Imagination Fort Worth, historical interpreters dressed in period attire will present a living history lesson on how American pioneers built strong homes out of tree trunks.
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4. Experience: Look Inside a Log Cabin
Exploring Log Cabins
Experience: Look Inside a Log Cabin
This program is tied into the
bilingual book “Look Inside
a Log Cabin”. Students will
learn how the pioneering
families of this area lived
on the Texas frontier.
Students will look inside a
log cabin to learn more
about pioneer life.
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5. Experience: At Log Cabin Village
Exploring Log Cabins
Experience: At Log Cabin Village
Log Cabin Village’s historical interpreters will introduce Pre-K classrooms to the basics of log cabins while reinforcing basic knowledge. Interpreters will create a bridge between history and artifacts to provide a memorable educational experience.
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6. Experience: At Log Cabin Village
Exploring Log Cabins
Experience: At Log Cabin Village
Students will learn about aspects of the history of log cabins, building log cabins, and living in log cabins by visiting-
Howard Cabin
Parker Cabin
Pickard Cabin
Seela Cabin
Tompkins Cabin
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7. Information: What is a log cabin?
Exploring Log Cabins
Information: What is a log cabin?
A log cabin is a house built from logs.
Historically most log cabins were simple one- or 1½-story structures.
A log cabin was usually constructed with round logs, and often it was the first generation home made quickly
as a frontier shelter.
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8. Information: Building a cabin
Exploring Log Cabins
Information: Building a cabin
When the pioneers first
arrived to their new land,
one of the first things they
needed to do was build a
house. In areas where there
were plenty of trees, they
would build log cabins. 
Log cabins required few
building resources, just trees
and an axe or saw. They didn't
need metal nails or spikes to
hold them together.
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9. Information: What is inside a log cabin?
Exploring Log Cabins
Information: What is inside a log cabin?
The settlers didn't have a
lot of furniture, especially
when they first moved in.
They might have a small
table, a bed, and a chair
or two. A lot of times they
would have a chest that they
brought with them from their
homeland filled with things
that the pioneers would use
to make the log cabin feel
like home. 
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10. Information: Log cabins today
Exploring Log Cabins
Information: Log cabins today
Pioneers didn’t have all the modern comforts that we have today. Today’s essentials like running water, bathrooms, and electricity were unheard of, and cooking took place over an open fire.
But today many people want to live in log cabins because of their rustic charm and natural beauty. Luckily, today we can get log cabins with essentials they did not have in the past.
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11. Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
Exploring Log Cabins
Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
The first log cabins in America were built in the 1600s by emigrants from Sweden. These first log cabins were built in the Scandinavian (Sweden, Finland, Norway) style and began a trend of building log cabins in the US. Log cabins had been built in these countries for thousands of years.
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12. Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
Exploring Log Cabins
Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
If the roof was high enough, the pioneers often built a loft in their log cabins where someone could sleep. Often children would sleep in the loft.
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13. Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
Exploring Log Cabins
Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
The windows & doors to log cabins were usually built facing south. This allowed the sun to shine into the cabin during the day. With no electricity, sunlight was important. It also helped to heat the home during the cold winter months.
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14. Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
Exploring Log Cabins
Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
To make their log cabins warmer and resistant to bad weather, settlers would fill the cracks between the logs with mud or moss. Can you imagine insulating your house with mud?
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15. Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
Exploring Log Cabins
Enrichment: Fun facts about log cabins
Did you know that two US Presidents were born in log cabins? Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Logs were named after President Lincoln because he was born in a log home. These toys are notched dowel rods that resemble small logs. Lincoln Logs are a great way to build your own mini-log cabins!
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16. Projects: Drawing log cabins
Exploring Log Cabins
Projects: Drawing log cabins
Students will learn fine motor skills by practicing drawing circles and lines. By creating line drawings of log cabins, students will practice important skills that can help with writing. Make sure students practice holding their pencils properly while practicing their circles and straight lines.
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17. Projects: Lincoln’s Cabin
Exploring Log Cabins
Projects: Lincoln’s Cabin
Create a log cabin using popsicle sticks or straws along with construction paper or cardboard. Then include President Lincoln in his cabin. You can do this by putting a penny in the window of your cabin, by pasting a picture of Lincoln in your cabin or by drawing Lincoln with his famous top hat!
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18. About Us: Imagination Fort Worth
Imagination Fort Worth sparks the imaginations of Texas kids through transformational experiences. Over the past 25 years, more than five million students have participated in our programs—programs that combine the creative thrill of the arts with the critical educational goals outlined by local and state guidelines.
Through art, dance, music, and theater, students engage with history, science, math, and language in ways that enhance learning and awaken creativity.
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19. About Us: Imagination Fort Worth
Imagination Fort Worth is an independent
non-profit organization. We partner with 
local schools to create field trips and
in-school programs that target specific educational needs, as well as with local
arts and cultural institutions to introduce
students to a diversity of mind-opening experiences.
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20. Imagination Fort Worth would like to thank
the following for their continued support.
Imagination Fort Worth would like to thank
the following for their continued support.
Armstrong Foundation
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County
ARTS Council Northeast
Bates Container
Ben E. Keith
Birdies for Charity
Amon G Carter Foundation
City of Fort Worth
Colonial Country Club Charity
Community Foundation of North Texas
Communities Foundation of Texas
Dallas Hearing Foundation
Deaf Action Center
Fash Foundation
Fifth Avenue Foundation
Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau
Frost Bank
Garvey Texas Foundation
Edith Winther Grace Charitable Trust
Hired Hands, Inc.
Mary Potishman Lard Trust
Edward and Ellison Lasater Trust
Mollie and Garland Lasater Charitable Trust
Livingston Hearing Aid Centers, Inc.
Gary Patterson Foundation
Rhodes Charitable Trust
Rosenthal Charitable Trust
Rotary Club of Fort Worth
Rozell Sprayer Manufacturing Company
Ryan Foundation
William E. Scott Foundation
Sertoma Club of Fort Worth
Sid W Richardson Foundation
Helen Gertrude Sparks Trust
Starkey Hearing Foundation
Texas Association of Parents & Educators of the Deaf
Texas Commission for the Arts
Texas Education Agency
Texas Instruments
Texas Women for the Arts
Tyler Metro Association for the Deaf
A Special Thanks to our Individual Donors
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21. Enjoy your trip to Log Cabin Village!