Homeschoolers’ Day

Time:

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Location:

Centennial Barn

$5 students, $3 adults. Dive into early Native American life! Students in grades 2-6 and their parents are invited to the Native American workshop to make pottery, furnish a wigwam and more and also tour the Fort Hunter Mansion. The visit, including time for a bag lunch, runs just under 4 hours.  To be held in the Centennial Barn and Mansion. Please pre-register at www.hahaofpa.org.

Students will explore how Indians once lived in the Fort Hunter/Harrisburg area. They will focus on how Indians obtained food, shelter, clothing and equipment. Activities include furnishing a wigwam, making a piece of pottery and participatory storytelling. Children will handle the kinds of food, materials and equipment once used by Native Americans who farmed and hunted here in the 1300s and 1400s.

After lunch they’ll tour the Mansion to see life in the 1800s. Children will compare the owners’ life to Native Americans – how they obtained food, shelter, clothing and equipment in the Victorian era. On guided tours students will see original artifacts and furnishings – from a chamber pot and rope bed to a music box and foot warmer.

At the conclusion of the Mansion tour, children will visit the educationally oriented shop.  Many of the items are historical reproductions; children enjoy finding a memory-making treasure, many of which are priced under $6.   Proceeds fund educational programs at Fort Hunter.