Kids Activity 6

Timucua People and Florida Plants
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DIRECTIONS: Unscramble these words to find out how the Timucua used plants for food, tools, and medicine.

1) LAPM _ _ _ _	Timucuas used this tree’s frond to make the roofs of their huts. They ate the berries and the cabbage heart, and used the roots and fronds for basket weaving.
2) LILWWO _ _ _ _ _ _	Timucuas used the inner bark from this tree to make medicine for headaches.
3) PREAG _ _ _ _ _	Timucuas ate the fruit from this vine that has raggedy leaves.
4) LOLYH _ _ _ _ _	Timucuas used this tree’s new leaves (& the caffeine in them) to make the Black Drink.
5) ENAB_ _ _ _	Timucuas planted this vine with corn because it puts nitrogen back into the soil. They ate the pods.
6) AKO _ _ _	Timucuas made acorn bread from this tree’s nuts.
7) YHOKICR _ _ _ _ _ _ _	Timucuas used the wood from this tree to make bows and also ate its nuts.
8) MLPU _ _ _ _	Timucuas ate the small orange fruits from this thorny bush.
9) SRYCPES _ _ _ _ _ _ _	Timucuas made canoes from this tree which has knees sticking up from the water.
10) LLSFWWOERDI _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _	Timucuas made cough medicine, eye drops, and burn ointment from many of these