Objectives Students create a toy that was commonly used by the Penobscot Indian children of New England. Children fashioned the toy from a triangle-shaped piece of bark from a birch tree.
Students can use cardboard in place of birch bark.
Cut the cardboard into triangle shapes approximately 8 inches long on each side. Fashion from a piece of modeling clay a small ball about the size of a medium-size gumball. Let the clay ball harden. Children hold the triangle and try to swing the ball upward so that it drops through the hole in the triangle. Keep score by passing a bean to students each time the ball drops through the hole.