Deb I saw you placed shadow portraits in the Victorian era. We do these at
our home, this was a Quaker art work and extremely popular in colonial New
jersey ....just a poi       ----- Original Message -----
From: "Deb Fuller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: Childrens activities


> --- James Schulte <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The house I volunteer at has a children's day once a year. At this event
we
> > do many colonial games, activities which would be appropriate for this
time
> > period. Were looking to expand what we do, so Im wonder what all y'all
do in
> > regards to children's activities, especially those associated with early
> > America...thanks Jim
>
> I just did a Hands on History day back in June and got some great
suggestions
> from this group. A search of the archives should find them. Off the top of
my
> head, ideas included:
>
> - Knitting, quilting, embroidery or other needlework (crochet didn't start
> being used until the Civil War era though the technique had been around
before
> then)
> - Laundry
> - Herbs - growing, drying, herbal medicine
> - Colonial medicine (we had a Colonial doc come to our event)
> - Quill pen writing
> - Cooking
> - Grinding corn/making flour
> - Making butter (baby food jars, a piece of ice and some heavy cream)
> - Spinning and weaving
> - Games like marbles, quoits, or horseshoes
> - "Grandma's trunk" - dress-up clothing
> - Shadow portraits (more Victorian)
> - Making calling cards (again more Victorian)
> - Soap making
> - Horse care (Our site is at a barn so we had someone and their horse do a
> grooming and horse shoeing demo)
> - Bread making
> - Knot-tying
> - Period school lessons with hornbooks and McGuffy readers
> - period carpentry
> - rope making
> - natural dyes
> - musket/black powder demo
> - leather/canvas sewing
>
> I'm sure there are many others as well.
>
> Deb
>
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