Travel back in time with our Art & Baking Novel Study Guide for the first book in a fun series about The Little House in the Highlands, Martha's Story!

Get your masterpiece passport ready as we go back in time, to the 1700’s in Scotland! A time to when Martha, great, grandmother of Laura Ingals Wilder grew up in a little stone house, in the Highlands! This novel series is a historical fiction, written by Melissa Wiley, and this novel study guide was written for children aged 4 to 13, as a companion to use along with our Scotland Adventures, 3 Week Read, Paint, Cook Unit Study.

There are traditional recipes and optional crafts to enjoy along the way, some of which older children may also enjoy. I hope you have fun reading this children's novel and its inspired study guide, with your family as much as we do.

What’s included?

Chapter by Chapter Lessons Plans which include:

• additional book lists

• traditional recipes (included)

• art projects (some suggestions with links for inspiration, and some included)

• discussion questions about the chapters topics

• missing word sentence work

• Lesson Plans

• Weekly Rhythms

• Supply Lists

Student Workbook:

a range of language arts worksheets for students to enjoy along side each chapter, with coloring, creative writing, sentence tracing, poetry, art appreciation and picture study with discussion questions, plus a Scottish Heroine Spotlight on Flora MacDonald and more!

Art Projects:

• Clay and Felt Fairies

• Learn about the Great Scottish Tapestry (Scan the QR codes with each lesson for more details)

• Interior Drawing of Tervish's Farm House with Thatched Roof (Scan QR Code to learn more about thatched room)

• Creative Drawings of Brownies, with Art Appreciation

• Bagpipes & Tartans Craft (included)

• Apron Sewing

• Hand sewing or Spinning wool with a drop spindle

Art Styles included in our Student Workbook:

• Realism/Landscape/Animal Paintings

• Surrealism

• Realism

• Post-Impressionism

• Romanticism

• Divisionism

Traditional Scottish Recipes Included:

• Oatmeal Drop Cookies

• Scottish Ham & Lentil Soup

• Scottish Fruit Slice

• Eccles Cakes with pie crust recipe

• Brownies

• Scottish Seed Cake

• Clapshot (Potatoes and Turnips)

• Bilberry Muffins

• Scotch Pies

• Petticoat Tails Shortbread

• Scottish Macaroons

Traditional Scottish Holidays/Historic Topics Covered:

• Hogmanay

• English Plows

• Agriculture in Scotland in the 1700's

• Family Dynamics in the 1700's

• Castles, Maids, Lairds, and more

• Flora MacDonald

• Prince Charles Edward Stewart

• Jacobite Rebellion, and the battle of Culloden, in 1746

Pair this study up with our soon to release Unit Study all about the Clothing in Scotland and England in the 1700's!

Please tag us on Instagram @build_your_masterpiece_class so I can see your little house masterpieces!

Happy Exploring,
-Alexandra

Pair this up with our Adventures in:

• Scotland

• England

• Ireland