Let our Experienced Guides Lead your Students
Through A Day in the Life of a Colonial Child
We have complied with the Jessica Lunsford Act

This program gives your students a
hands-on experience in Colonial life.
The "chores" that your students will participate in are:

Using a drop spindle to make yarn
Weaving wool on a loom
Shelling corn for grinding
Grinding corn with mortar and pestles
Writing on parchment with a quill pen
Weaving palm leaf chains
Stringing shells for colonial jewelry
Making a colonial toy
Using a rope machine

Students will be actively participating and we will
give prizes for correct riddle answers!


All of these activities are designed to let your students understand how hard
and challenging life was in Colonial Times for both children and adults.

Presentations can be for grade levels or entire schools!

Minimum number of students may be required. Call or email today!

We can also use your rooms as stations that the students rotate through.
Times can be tailored to meet your needs but usually run about 45-60 minutes.

Your guide is in period clothing.

All Colonial Kids Creative Classrooms are $6 or less per student!
Please remember that minimum numbers may apply.

Please call for your counties price.



Each Student completes and keeps 4 projects; A Colonial shell necklace, a ball & cup toy a palm woven chain, and a quill pen!
Each Classroom receives a Colonial Kids parchment that their students sign to remember their Colonial Classroom experience.

Be sure to ask about our Power Points! Click here to find out more!

Paula S. Gates & Christopher C. Gates
St. Augustine Guides for Hire
904-471-4314
E-mail staugguides@bellsouth.net
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