PASTIMES OF ANCESTRAL PEOPLES – Toys and Games from the Trees: Ages 8+
May 3 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
PASTIMES OF ANCESTRAL PEOPLES – Toys and Games from the Trees: Ages 8+
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Make an acorn cap, ring and pin game and acorn spinning tops. The bounty of oak trees offers us all a chance to make challenging and fun games that the local indigenous peoples made and played.
After learning the fundamentals of making and using stone and bone tools, you will grind and drill acorn caps on sandstone and use your new deer bone borer to help make a hole in the center. You will shape and sharpen a short tree branch, then learn to hand twist a flax fiber into a string to assemble and complete the game. Using the same sandstone and bone tool, you will learn to select, drill, and make acorn spinning tops. Depending on weather, participants will also have the opportunity to help create a friction fire that our group will use to make our pine pitch.
Cost: $30/person or $100/family (4 max).
Overall class goals and objectives for ALL classes, camps and workshops:
- Learn how prehistoric peoples created a multitude of art and culture items from the natural materials around them.
- Learn how ancestral peoples made the tools and acquired the plant, animal and mineral resources to create art and culture items.
- Learn to appreciate the relationships these ancient peoples had with the natural world around them and how they lived in balance with it.
- Learn the STEM lessons presented from working with the tools and materials.