So in this post, I’m sharing how we worked on understanding the history of North America, through famous landmarks figures and playsets that depicts the life of the early people of North America.

Materials I prepared:
- Landmarks of North America booklet
- Safari Supertoob USA
- Safari Toob Around the World Landmarks
- North American History timeline cards

Mavi was particularly fascinated with the Liberty Bell. So we went beyond the booklet and read some more history books to learn more about the independence of the United States.

Vito on the other hand, was more interested with the bald eagle. There’s something about animals that little ones just loves!

According to Mavi he wanted to see everything that’s in the toob in real life (LOL) especially Mount Rushmore. He liked the idea of faces carved on a mountain. He memorized the names of the presidents whose faces were carved on the mountain, then he remembered George Washington. “The bridge connecting NYC and Jersey was named after him Mom”. He remembered that bridge! (We were staying in NJ)

Once we talked about the landmarks (including the Chichen Itza in Mexico), we proceeded in working the timeline cards of the North American history. You can get these through our North America in a Nutshell. He was surprised to learn that Europeans discovered North America, and that primarily they were inhabited by North American Indians (US) and Mayans in Mexico until Christopher Columbus arrived.

Next day, we set-up our Playmobil Native Americans and Playmobil Wagon as sort of a museum similar to Museum of Natural History in NYC. Here Mavi placed the history cards, and displayed the wild west and Native American people.

Here’s our Native American tribe leader. We read about how these people moved from places to places, and fought for their land.

Symbolism of totem poles and the home of the Native Americans, we discussed how different they are to the homes we have now.


Now here’s a wagon, one of the iconic representation of wild west!

Vito loves this!

And that’s all for the history! It was great and fruitful!
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