Survival Skills:

1. What items were needed to start a fire?

2. Name something besides currency that was used as a trade good.

3. What animal was used to carry supplies or hides?

4. Name a tool all surveyors relied upon.

5. This instrument provided protection and was used for hunting game.

6. What essential worker from a fort would have made such iron tools as tomahawk blades or cooking utensils?

7. A popular gun of the time period. (Hint: it is not short).

8. Name another use for songs.

9. This was made from deer skins and turned into clothing, shoes, saddles and pouches.

10. An iron pot and mold produces this necessary item for finding dinner.

Home & Hearth:

11. This included preserving food, mending clothes, and doctoring your family.

12. What was the name for a period tool used for producing strips or bands of hand woven warp-faced cloth?

13. Every country has one of these – the United States of America has a red, white & blue one.

14. Another word for “beliefs” or “traditions”.

15. How did settlers acquire clothing in the 18th century?

16. Girls might learn to do this at a young age – the result would keep them warm in the winter.

Entertainment:

17. In the colonial period, this person was known as a street entertainer-he could probably pull a rabbit out of his hat. 

18. What is the term for oral history (or spinning a good yarn)?

19. Martha and George Washington probably played this game when they were children.

Native Ways:

20. An ancient weapon made of stone and wood-you’ll see both Natives and settlers carrying them. (Hint: hold onto your scalp!)

21. Name a tribe of Native Americans that were found in Kentucky at this time-together, they were known as Eastern Woodland Indians.

22. Native Americans preserved meant in the form of ____ ?

23. What country did the Native Americans side with during the Revolutionary War?

BONUS QUESTIONS:

People of Painted Stone Station:

24. Who founded Painted Stone Station?

25. It took several people to operate this eighteenth century weapon.

26. What year were the inhabitants of Painted Stone Station attacked?

2025 ANSWERS

Answers are posted below - after the School Day Program is completed. Answers can be found by listening to the station demonstrators or on the Agenda descriptions.

If teachers/homeschoolers wish their students to complete this Scavenger Hunt at the School Day Program, they must provide their own copies of the questions, pencils and Agendas if needed.