Celebrate Leif Eriksson Day with a Discovery Craft
October 9th is Leif Eriksson Day. If you’re not sure exactly what this means or why we celebrate it – Eriksson was the first traveler to land on North America (roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus even set sail). That said, it wasn’t for centuries after Columbus’s journey that the history books picked-up on Eriksson’s story. Why? Unlike other discoverers, he didn’t leave behind a map. In celebration of Eriksson’s unrecorded journey, invite your child to do what the discoverer didn’t – make a map. Take a look at the globe and chart out trip from Greenland to North America....
