Deb, how about needlepoint/embroidery?  It's nearly a
lost art these days.


--- Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running a "hands on history day" at a historic
> house in Maryland and am
> looking for some activities for kids and their
> families to do. Since the house
> has been continuously inhabited from like
> 1787-1970ish, I'm trying to find
> activities from all time periods, not just a
> specific one.
>
> The ones I've gotten so far are pretty typical:
> spinning, weaving,
> candle-dipping, harness the horse, laundry,
> woodworking, cooking and laundry.
> But I'd like to find some other activities related
> to a plantation house or
> farm that would be interesting and unusual as well.
> I'd especially like things
> from the Victorian age or the first half of the 20th
> century to spread the time
> periods out a bit. Also if people have examples of
> activities NOT to do, that
> would be great too.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!!
>
> Deb
>
> Museum Specialist
> Poplar Hill on His Lordship's Kindness
> The John M. and Sara R. Walton Foundation, Inc.
> 7606 Woodyard Rd,
> Clinton, MD 20735
> 301-856-0358


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