Children Making History – With Crafts and Butter
Mitchell House has an all-new week-long camp this summer – actually we have one in July (it was this past week) and one in August. Children learn all about what life on Nantucket was like in Maria Mitchell’s day, learn about Maria and her family members, and then create a wide assortment of crafts and art related to the activities of each day. After learning about eclipses, children create their own eclipse. After talking about domestic life, they make butter and try their hand at some basic embroidery. Coin purses, kaleidoscopes, and their own journals with marbled paper are just a few of the things that children will create as they spend their days at Mitchell House and exploring the sites of downtown Nantucket. And, they even get to roll wooden hoops! Too bad that I’m too old for this class!
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