Program

The Not-So-Good Old Days is a hands-on history program for kids. As a teacher, I know that students are more engaged and focused when they're working on hands-on projects. What could be more hands-on than changing a colonial "baby’s" clout, swaddling the baby onto a swaddling board, hanging the swaddled baby from a peg/hook so it isn’t nibbled by the pigs which wandered into colonial homes, and examining antique chamber pots as well as the rags, ropes, corn cobs, feathers, leaves, and rocks which were used as colonial toilet paper. Finally, kids participate in a relay race with a "full" chamber pot! An engaging child-friendly PowerPoint presentation precedes the hands-on activities.