Monthly Archives: June 2018
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL FAIRY DAY
Personally, I have never outgrown my love of the fairy realm. https://witchlike.wordpress.com/category/fairies/
HISTORY CHALLENGE: VINTAGE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
Let your kids take this quiz and see how many of these vintage and antique household items they (and you) can recognize. http://offbeat.topix.com/quiz/18715/qidx1?tr=quiz/retake-quiz/////,1513809409,b5nu99u7
HISTORY LURE: HISTORIC FASHIONS
Teens interested in the fashions of today might also be interested in bygone ones. And what we can learn from ‘old clothes’. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/confessions-of-a-costume-curator/536961/ http://www.washington.edu/news/2010/12/01/vintage-visions-sporting-elegant-bygone-fashions-just-for-fun/
DON’T FORGET THE ‘STORY’
June’s history based or bygone era book suggestions. Ages 3-7 The Day You Were Born by Evelyn Swetnam (Own History) How Many Dragons Are Behind The Door? by Virginia Kahl (Medieval) The Loon’s Necklace by William Toye (First Nations Legend) Ages 7-9 The King In The Forest by Michael Murpurgo (Medieval) Magic Tree House […]
HISTORIC MOVIE IDEAS FOR JUNE
June’s history based or bygone era TV and/or movie suggestions: Gidget (1959) (Mid-20th Century) The Education Of Little Tree (1997) (Depression Era) The Great Locomotive Chase (Disney, 1956) (American Civil War)
HISTORIC FIND: FIFTY-SIX CHILD SACRIFICE SKELETONS DISCOVERED IN PERU
Even kids who are fond of the past would have to admit that kids didn’t always fare too well there. https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/171217/posts/1886020956
Time Travelling With Kids 