PASTIMES OF ANCESTRAL PEOPLES - Toys and Games from the Trees: Ages 8+ ENROLLMENT OPEN - SIGN UP HERE 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. ...
Decorated Double Cane Whistle Class May 17th ENROLLMENT OPEN - SIGN UP HERE Ages 8-12 -Whistles have been made and used for keeping rhythm, signaling and for imitating the calls of animals for millennia. In this class, participants, using only stone and bone tools, will learn to make a cane double whistle using a...
Ancestral Arts & Skills Immersion for Everyone Class: Ages 18+ ENROLLMENT OPEN - SIGN UP HERE In this fast moving, 2-day workshop you will learn the basics of crafting unique cultural items using only the tools and materials of the past. You will make the tools, process the materials and learn the techniques of hand...
First Hunters Camp June 16 - 20th. INITIAL ENROLLMENT - FULL ADDITIONAL CAMP ADDED FOR WEEK OF JULY 7 -11. SIGN UP HERE In this hands-on camp, learn how people from all over the world hunted before the bow and arrow. Campers will spend the week learning to make their own atlatl (spear thrower) and...
Ancient Paints 101: Animals and Handprints. Ages: 8-12 ENROLLMENT OPEN - SIGN UP HERE Learn how prehistoric people made materials used to create animal images found over 50,000 years ago on cave walls. Create handprints and to draw ice age animals with handmade charcoal and paints. New discoveries show that humans have been making handprints...
First Hunters Camp July 7 - 11th. ENROLLMENT OPEN - SIGN UP HERE In this hands-on camp, learn how people from all over the world hunted before the bow and arrow. Campers will spend the week learning to make their own atlatl (spear thrower) and dart (spear), using only stone and bone tools from the...
Cave Painting 101: Make Your Own Ancient Art Supplies From Nature. Ages 8-12 ENROLLMENT OPEN - SIGN UP HERE Learn how prehistoric peoples made the materials used to create images. Practice grinding earth colors into pigment, use traditional brushes and create art in new ways. Humans have been using earth colors for over 100,000 years...
Secrets of Ancient Arts Camp July 14th - 18th ENROLLMENT OPEN - SIGN UP HERE Ages 8-12 - In this intensive camp, kids will learn how ancient peoples made the tools and gathered the raw materials to make a multitude of cultural arts. They will smash stones to make cutting edges, peel tree bark to...
First Hunters Camp June 15 - 19th. Ages 8 - 12 ENROLLMENT FULL Fee: $205 / 195 Museum Members Discount Under the guidance of our highly trained staff, learn how to make your own spear-thrower and dart with stone tools and techniques that hunters have used for thousands of years. Snares, traps and tracking methods...
First Hunters Camp July 13th - 17th. Ages 8 - 12 ENROLLMENT FULL Fee: $205 / 195 Museum Members Discount Under the guidance of our highly trained staff, learn how to make your own spear-thrower and dart with stone tools and techniques that hunters have used for thousands of years. Snares, traps and tracking methods...
