Last year, our hosted a Traveling Living Musuem company called "Journey Back in Time." The woman who owns the company came to our school, set up sevaral displays including,
-Washing Station: Washboard and wringer, and
an old hand-operated pump
-Cooking Station: Kneading dough and using
rolling pins
-Gold Rush: Panning for Gold. Kids keep
several pieces they find.
-Yarn Making: From sheared wool
-Pioneer Jewelry Making.
-Shaving Station: kids lathered up with soap
and used dull knives as
straight razors to shave
-Pioneer Toys: Old toys and puzzles to have
the kids try to figure out
how to work/solve.
During the School Day, we had a volunteer at each station (in shifts) helping the kids and showing them what to do.
Each grade level came through the gym in about 40 minutes per class and that evening, we invited the kids to bring their families back for a Bar-B-Que dinner and a "Journey Back In Time." We didn't need volunteers to work the stations in the evening because the kids really enjoyed showing their Moms and Dads what to do. The students delighted in teaching their parents how to solve the puzzles in the display of toys.
The event cost us (if I remeber correctly) about $1,000 but we made some of that back (if not all of it) in the sale of the dinners. We could have also gone through Kipp Brothers and purchased some of the "OLD Fashioned Toys" to sell that night as well to raise some more, but who knew. Instead, our PTSO sold those classic style toys (Cup & Ball, Horse-shoe puzzles, Jacob's Ladders, etc.) at our Secret Santa Shop and the kids LOVED them. The older kids remembered seeing them the year before and hadn't been able to find them anywhere else since.
Good Luck with your Project. I hope it turns out really well for you.
Oh and watermelon seed spitting is educational because you can have the kids measure out how far away they landed etc. That's science isn't it?? [img]smile.gif[/img]
Hi Shawn, I'm sure there are other LDS members on here. I'd say half of our State PTA board is LDS... I thought that was funny.
Oh watermelon seed spitting contest. That's another one from a Pioneer day in my youth... For pioneer garb- Simplicity Costume pattern 9746- Option B, if you are good with a sewing machine.
Ask your local scout troop for an archery demo.
Shawn- Sparks 2nd, NV here and my favorite song growing up was the Ox Cart [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 04-22-2005, 02:08 AM: Message edited by: Michelle B ]
Mormons
check for closest ward
, Boys and Girls Scouts, Indian Guides (YMCA?)or Local Western Wear Outfitter might have some info
Hey Michelle, nice to see a fellow(gal)LDS person on the board (just remember no using hadcarts in the dead of winter)
1st Ward Northridge CA
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