COLONIAL KIDS: TOYS & GAMES
Description
One of our most popular programs, this hands-on workshop focuses on everyday life in the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing speci cally on the similarities and differences of children’s lives today. Students will have an opportunity to play with historic reproduction toys such as the Buzz Saw and Thaumatrope.
Appropriate for grades K-6
Price: $100, 60 minutes
Offered At
Queens Historical Society
QHS owns and maintains the Kingsland Homestead, a late 18th-century Long Island Half-House style structure that is honored as being the first New York City landmark in Queens County. It is located in the historic Weeping Beech Park in Flushing, Queens. In addition to changing exhibitions, a period room displays furnishings of the Victorian era. QHS also owns and maintains the landmark Moore-Jackson Cemetery in Woodside, a rare surviving Colonial-era family burial ground established circa 1733.
Details
Subjects
History, Colonial Times
Capacity
30 students
Duration
60 min.
Activity
Field Trip
Grades
K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Price Options
$100.00 per Group for Public School
$100.00 per Group for Private School
$100.00 per Group for Title I School
$100.00 per Group for School Group