Create Your Own Pictographs

How did prehistoric artists create such beautiful pictographs? Follow these simple steps to learn how. Just like the ancient people you can find everything you need in nature to create your own pictographs!

Create Your Own Pictographs

Trans-Pecos Crossword

How well do you know the Trans-Pecos? Test your knowledge of the geography and characteristics of this region by completing this crossword puzzle!

Trans-Pecos Crossword

Meet the Critters

Do you know your prehistoric critters? Match each clue with the correct animal to discover some pretty wild facts about our four-legged (and sometimes three-toed!) megafauna friends from Kincaid Shelter in south Texas.

Meet the Critters

How Many Ways Can You Use a Buffalo?

Put your mouse on different parts of the buffalo to discover how the Indians used everything from its beard to its brains!

How Many Ways Can You Use a Buffalo

Meet You at the Midden Board Game

Use our colorful map of Burret's Trail at the Nightengale Archeological Center to navigate through different cultural time periods. Discover the adventure in archeology!

Meet You at the Midden Board Game

Dating an Archeologist

Help Romeo get a date with Annie the archeologist! You're sure to fall in love with this great crossword puzzle.

Dating an Archeologist

Artifact Bingo

Got a group of friends? Get together and play our Artifact Bingo game. You never know what cool artifacts you'll find!

 

Artifact Bingo

Color the Past

Print out any of the 12 black and white drawings on our Color the Past page. You can color, paint, cut, trace, and learn about Texas' past at the same time!

Color the Past

Hank's House Coloring Sheet and Book Recommendation

Print out a coloring sheet featuring Dr. Dirt at Hank's House, a Panhandle archeological site named for Hank the Cowdog, on our Hank's House 1 Kids' Activities page, and then read a fantastic new (in 2022) kids' book about Hank's House and a lot of other amazing archeology found nearby it on Hank the Cowdog author John Erickson's Panhandle ranch!

Color the Past

Texas Beyond History
TBH WebTeam
September 2022


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