School Frolics
Four educational and fun filled hours of learning about Colonial America through living history demonstrations and hands-on activities. Come and learn about the beginnings of Lancaster county, that started here..
Fall 2008 Spring 2009
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 9:30 am - 1:30 pm Friday, April 24, 2009 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
Friday, May 8, 2009 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
Friday, May 22, 2009 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
Frolics are fantastic fun for students in grades 3 through 8.
Frolics allow students to experience Colonial Life through hands-on demonstrations like basket making, quilting, butter making, scherenschnitte, fraktur, washing their hands with home-made soap, playing colonial games, a wagon ride to name just a few activities students may try.
Frolics show students what clothing looked like in 1750, Germanic architecture, blacksmithing, a 4-square German garden, spinning wool, fabric dyeing, treenware and many more sights.
Frolics afford students some tastes of Colonial life. Students can enjoy freshly made butter, smoked sausage, ginger bread, pound cake or little apple cakes to name a few tasty morsels.
Frolics provide many smells as well; the blacksmiths’ fire, smoke-house smoke, a wood fire on the hearth, and our friendly pigs, to name a few.
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. Come to experience, see, taste, smell and learn about Colonial America and Lancaster county at the birth-place of Lancaster County.
Students
$5.00
Chaperones (1 chaperone per 8 students)
Free
Adults (beyond 1:8 ratio)
$4.00
Registration is required 3 weeks prior to event. Contact: info@hansherr.org.
Fall Frolics
While traditional schools are not discouraged from attending our Fall Frolic, we reserve this Frolic primarily for our 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 2008-09 school year. Register early to save your place at one on these special school events.
Schedule for Frolic Day
Each school group will be scheduled to participate in the following timed events: a wagon ride, a house tour, playing colonial games and an optional trip to the gift shop.
Registration is required 3 weeks prior to event. Contact: info@hansherr.org.