Teri,

I'm not sure how people will react to headstone
coloring books.  I think it sounds cool, and I think
focusing on symobls is interesting.

Depending on your budget, manipulative materials might
be fun.  Maybe a one page booklet featuring a blank
headstone where you could affix and remove (like
magnetic word poetry) a variety of symbols and quotes.
 A timeline with space for drawings at significant
dates/events might be nice, also.  This could get
people past focusing on the person's death and more
into considering his or her life.

Good luck,
Dan

--- Teri Pope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Greetings to the list,
>
> I am participating in an upcoming community outreach
> fair which will showcase educational opportunities
> for
> kids in our area.  I will be representing the school
> tour program for Sacramento's Old City Cemetery (ca
> 1849) which I manage.  (Believe me, the irony of
> doing
> "living history" in a cemetery is NOT lost on me!)
>
> I am trying to devise something that kids can take
> with them from our table to go with the tour
> brochure.
>  A coloring sheet came to mind, with either
> sketches
> and captions of gravestone symbols (fairly neutral,
> not-to-religious ones) or of noteworthy gravestones
> in
> our cemetery (Mark Hopkins, or John Sutter, Jr., for
> example).
>
> My questions are these:  Would the general public
> find
> these too morbid for children?  And, does anyone
> have
> any other ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Teri Pope
> Educational Tours Coordinator
> Saxramento Old City Cemetery
> [log in to unmask]
>
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