Enrichment Activities
Activities for enhancing classroom assignments, gaining new insights into Kansas history, or just having fun.
Annual Events
- Kansas Day in the Classroom - lessons, activities, videos, music, and tours
- Student photo contest - Happy Birthday, Kansas! Photo Contest (primary, intermediate, middle school, and high school)
Resource Materials
- Famous Kansans trading cards - find more than 150 people, known and lesser known, connected with Kansas history
- Food in Kansas - cookbook for young Kansans with historical and nutritional information
- Kansans Breaking Barriers - poster highlighting several female politicians in Kansas
- Kansas Images: An Activity Book for Children - Kansas symbols activities for primary grades
- Kid's Kansas - an activity book for fourth grade
- Today is Kansas Day a read aloud story written by Kristy Nersthemier
Make and Take Activities
Directions, templates, games, and recipes for a variety of hands-on activities.
Supplemental Activities
Primary source, mapping, reading, math, and a variety of other activities to supplement lessons.
Coloring Pages
- Kansas State Symbols Coloring Book
- 34 Star Flag
- Birthday Cake
- Birthday Streamer
- Churning Butter
- Cowboy
- Cutting the Wheat
- The Great Seal of Kansas
- Honeybee State Insect
- Kansas Harvest About 1900
- Kansas Pride
- Little Bluestem
- Ornate Box Turtle - State Reptile of Kansas
- Parts of the Wheat Plant
- Proud Kansan
- Roping Steers
- State Capitol Dome
- Steam Engine
- Sunflower
- Territorial Seal
- Wheat in Kansas
Available to purchase
- Kansas A to Z - perfect for young readers
- Real People. Real Stories. activity books - seven booklets featurning people in Kansas history
- Story of Kansas Coloring Book - featuring the story of Buddy Buffalo, just for beginning artists
