Colonial Adventures Summer Camp 2014

Colonial Adventures!  Summer Camp 2014

Session Dates Session 1 June 23rd - 27th Session 2 July 7th - 11th Cost $325.00 per child $300.00 per child for London Town Members, Merchant level or higher $315.00 per child for 2 children $305.00 per child for 3+ children (Contact us for discount codes to use online or for scholarship information.)   Ages We welcome all children who completed 1st through 6th grade  during the 2013/2014 school year. We now have a new online registration system!! Register Now!!! Powered by Active Network Contact Us  410-222-1919 ext.212 839 Londontown Rd. Edgewater, MD 21037 education@historiclondontown.org publicprograms@historiclondontown.org www.historiclondontown.org Registration Now Open!! Welcome to the world of Colonial Maryland! Colonial Adventures  offers children the opportunity to spend part of their summer experiencing colonial life in a hands-on, experience-based environment. If this sounds like just another school field trip with tours and lectures, think again. Your child will live the colonial life dressing in period clothing, hearth cooking their own lunch, learning colonial crafts (including making leather journals, writing with quill pens and more), and playing colonial games and throwing tomahawks. They will also learn to be a spy and send coded messages, and even become a pirate for a day-- acquiring a pirate name, searching for buried treasure, and terrorizing the Chesapeake Bay! Through a wide variety of hands-on and experience-based activities they won't realize they are learning, they'll just think they're having fun! New this year:  ONLINE REGISTRATION!   Clothing Kids will be totally immersed in colonial life. To help with this, each will be given a set of colonial clothes to wear for the week. They will truly look and feel the part. Activities These are just some of the activities that will be available: Arts and Crafts activities will include making Sweet Bags, journals and coil pots, and writing with quill pens and much, much more! Hearth Cooking will include baking bread, making Hoe Cakes, cooking a full colonial meal and making ice cream. Throughout the week your child will master games such as The Captain's Coming!, Capture the Flag, Nine Mens' Morris, Here There Be Sea Monsters and so much more. Your child will have the opportunity to practice such colonial skills as Tomahawk Throwing, creating/decoding Cipher Codes, Riddles, Weaving and Rope Making. Special Themes: Pirate Day! Arrrrgh! For a day, your kids will live the life of a pirate on the Chesapeake Bay! After acquiring a new pirate name they will learn to talk like a pirate, hunt for buried treasure, make a treasure map of their own and learn about what it took to be a successful pirate. There may be eye-patches, peg-legs and parrots involved. Shiver me timbers! A fun day this will be, me hearties!   Colonial Espionage  Did you know that during the Revolutionary War both sides used female spies? Learn about spies and the methods they used to send secret coded messages. Optional Overnight For the more adventurous, there will be the option to stay overnight in one of our historic buildings for campers aged 10 and up. We'll explore the site, play games, sing songs, tell stories, and sleep in a colonial style building. An additional $50  fee will be required.