Explorers Topic: The Mayflower Ship Craft

The Mayflower Ship Craft & Explorers Writing Activities
Enhance your ‘Explorers’ or ‘Significant Historical Events’ topic with this fantastic Mayflower Ship Craft and Writing pack by Hidden Class Gems. This 10-page resource explores the famous 1620 journey of the Pilgrim Fathers from England to the New World, blending Design & Technology (cut and stick) with creative cross-curricular writing.

The writing tasks are differentiated into three levels, making it incredibly easy to support early writers or challenge more confident pupils in KS1 or lower KS2.

What’s Included in this 10-Page Pack:

• Teacher Notes: Guidance for use and ideas for a fantastic classroom display.

• Mayflower Cut & Stick Craft (3 Pages): Templates for the hull, masts, flag, sails, waves, and a background assembly page.

• Differentiated Writing Sheets (3 Levels):

• Support: Tracing words and simple fill-in-the-blanks.

• Core: Sentence completion and drawing a map of the voyage.

• Challenge: Writing a descriptive paragraph from the perspective of a child on the ship, featuring a success criteria checklist.

• Mayflower Fast Facts: An informative reading sheet covering the 66-day voyage, the 102 passengers, and the landing at Plymouth Rock.

• ’Mayflower Explorer’ Certificate: A lovely reward for completing the topic.