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Mesa Verde National ParkPark Fun Pages with Balcony House in background
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Mesa Verde National Park
Park Fun

Hey Kids! Here are some activities you can do at home. Just download and print each page (ask your parents for help if you need it). Then, have fun while you learn about Ancestral Puebloan life at Mesa Verde. And don't forget to try #6 to learn how you can help protect our national parks.

 
Illustration of Balcony House with the kiva courtyard in the foreground.

Illustration by Mary Lloyd

Balcony House


 

1. Times Have Changed - matching
(pdf, 181 kb)

2. Home Sweet Home - dot-to-dot
(pdf, 450 kb)

3. Food Find - word find
(pdf, 35 kb)

4. A-Mazing Migration - maze
(pdf, 127 kb)

5. Plain, Coiled, or Painted - draw
(pdf, 187 kb)

6. How Can I Help? - picture search
(pdf, 160 kb)

 


(Parents: To get the Free Adobe Reader required to read the above pdf files, click here.)
Photograph of Cliff Palace, 1895 - 1900 by WH Jackson  

Did You Know?
On a snowy December day in 1888, while ranchers Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason searched Mesa Verde’s canyons for stray cattle, they unexpectedly came upon Cliff Palace for the first time. The following year, the Wetherill brothers and Mason explored an additional 182 cliff dwellings.

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Last Updated: October 04, 2008 at 11:47 EST