Education Programs

Cooking up the Past - Grades 3-8
Students experience the fun and the work of preparing food the old-fashioned way in the 1820s kitchen addition to the 1740 Guyon-Lake-Tysen House. Participants use reading and math skills to figure out the recipes. Students also explore the colonial period farmhouse.

My Own Quilt - Grades 2-4
Students learn about daily life in a rural setting long ago. Participants read along in the book My Grandmother's Patchwork Quilt as they learn about early American farm life and the process of quilt making. Hands-on work with quilting shapes teaches the relationship between simple geometric shapes and area. Students design their own paper patch to put into a classroom quilt.

Fiber to Cloth - Grades 3-5
Right in your classroom, a costumed educator facilitates a hands-on 1½-hour lesson about the processes, materials and tools used in early America to produce homespun cloth. Students try carding wool, spinning, and weaving on a tape-loom. Designed to relate to Math, Social Studies and Language Arts curriculum and standards.