Learn about life in Colonial America
Designed for students in grades 3 through 8, the School Frolics provide four educational and fun-filled hours of learning about Colonial America through living history demonstrations and hands-on activities. 

Frolics educate the whole student by providing a multi-faceted educational experience around the 1719 Hans Herr House and the life and culture of the Swiss-German Mennonites that settled here. This learning opportunity takes place along "The Great Conestoga Road" at the very birth-place of Lancaster County.

The Frolic curriculum guides students through a series of stations at which interpreters demonstrate cooking and crafts, explain colonial lifestyles, and highlight notable features of the 1719 House and surrounding gardens and orchards.

Hands on
Frolic participants receive the unique chance to see, hear, smell, and taste the elements of colonial life. Students get to play colonial games and participate in hands-on demonstrations like basket making, quilting, butter churning, scherenschnitte, and fraktur. When they are all done, they can wash up with authentic home-made soap.

Authentic
Frolics reveal the authentic details of 1750 clothing, Germanic architecture, blacksmithing, a 4-square German garden, wool spinning, fabric dyeing, and treenware.

Flavorful
Students will enjoy tastes of Colonial life including freshly made butter, smoked sausage, ginger bread, and pound cake. Frolics are enhanced by the smells of a blacksmiths’ fire, smoke-house smoke, woodshop shavings, livestock and a wood fire on the hearth.

Fall Frolics
While traditional schools are welcome at our Fall Frolic, reservation priority is given to home school students.

Spring Frolics
A great culminating activity to the tradition schools’  social studies/history curriculum, choose from the three Spring Frolics scheduled for the 2009-10 school year.  

April 30, 9:30am - 1pm
May 14, 9:30am - 1pm
May 28, 9:30am - 1pm

Contact the Hans Herr Museum to register early and save your place at one on these special school events.

Schedule
Each school group will be scheduled to participate in the following timed events: a house tour, playing colonial games and an optional trip to the gift shop.

Rates
$5.00 - Students
Free - 1 adult chaperone per 8 students
$4.00 - Additional adults

Registration is required 3 weeks prior to event.  Contact: