Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:41:08 -0500 Message-ID: <c924ee140906230941v20321687tadf2cda8c0aa3306@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: museum activities for kids? From: "danzsl tds.net" <danzsl@tds.net>
Russ,
Just by accident, we hit upon an idea that was successful for a couple of
teenagers last weekend. We have the remains of an old Indian mound in our
village, so after they were studying the map of where it was located, our
docents sent them out to find it. They returned about 45 min later with the
address.
We have been thinking since then, that questions about the area that could
be easily found, on foot, in the phone book, asking parents, etc. could be
available to these young people as a scavenger type activity. Many have
cell phones and could take a picture of their find. Just an idea that
worked for us.
Shirley Danz, Black Earth Hist. Soc.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Russell Hanson
<riverroadrambler@gmail.com>wrote:
> We managed to get a fulltime summer person to keep our museum open during
> the day. The Luck museum shares a new building with the Luck library and we
> match their 11-6 hours. We get a spillover of kids coming into the
> museum. They are mostly 7-14 age. We would like to encourage them to
> come in and need some activities for them to do (that are not very hard for
> us to setup!).
>
> Any ideas or things that work for you?
>
> Thanks Russ Hanson Luck Area Historical Society
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