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Would you like to take your class back in time to the 18th century? Although designed specifically with Delaware teachers in mind, our programs are broad enough to accommodate schools from other states, home schoolers, youth organizations and summer camps. Our workshops provide an interactive, hands-on experience while addressing Delaware State Standards and activities that are age appropriate. In addition, teachers can customize tours from eight different workshop offerings.

In School Days, participate in actual 18th century lessons using quill pens and ink. Prepare authentic local recipes and cook over an open fire using period cooking tools and techniques in 18th Century Hearth Cooking. Shop in a typical colonial dry goods mercantile while assuming the identity of a long ago citizen of Odessa in The Wilson Store. Become children of the working class and participate in a morning of chores and colonial games and make your own historic toy in Children: Chores and Leisure. Go on an herb search in a colonial garden and plant your own heritage seed to take home and tend in A Kitchen Garden. Sign a contract, become an apprentice in William Corbit’s tannery and make your own leather back-pack tag in Artisan Apprentice. Get a “back stairs” tour of the servant areas of the Corbit-Sharp House and imagine working for this wealthy family in Indentured Servants. Go on a scavenger hunt which illustrates the lifestyle of a typical wealthy Quaker family living in a beautiful mansion in Corbits: A Genteel Quaker Family.

By immersing our young visitors in an authentic and interactive 18th century setting, we give students the experience of “walking in the shoes” of their colonial counterparts. Depending upon the age of the students and the areas of focus desired, tours can be half or full day. For students K-2, workshops will be 30 minutes in length. For older students, workshops will be more complex and thus longer. The group rate is $7.50 per student. All teachers and staff are free of charge.

Follow in the footsteps of fugitive slaves secretly working their way north to freedom. Explore the hiding places and routes used by local abolitionists who aided runaways in their flight. Create a classroom story quilt based upon your underground railroad experience.