RE: [Mid] School Surprise <arggggg>

I've found that lending the school some items for display goes over really
well. It's also much easier to organize than a demo during school hours.
The schools only need the display for a couple weeks so it works out well.

I put together such a display a couple of years ago for a local charter
elementary school.
The kit included:

For Display only: (In a glass case)
Armor, Shields, rapier, instruments (shawm, crumhorn, recorder, drum,)
Samples (copied from books and such) of Medieval music scores, illuminated
scrolls and other documents. All items had description cards so kids and
adults could read what each item was.
For the teachers to display:
Adult Costumes, with Tags attached listing "Time period", "Region", "Purpose
(ie undergarment,overdress),and historical notes for discussion with the
class ("This dress was worn by Noble women of XXth cent., Peasents would
have worn .......")
Music CD's or tapes; Instructions for dances that go with some of the music.
Books, especially those geared twards children or that have many pictures.
Samples of arts and science that Teachers can demonstrate, Spinning stuff,
weaving, embroidery, scroll work...

For the kids:
We collected two garbage bags full of old and newer costumes that could be
worn by the children for dress up. Some of these were kids costumes and
some were older adult costumes that we just don't wear anymore, or that
would work well for a child if they were belted. (Old Tabbards worked
Great!!) We also threw in a bunch of material cut into viel size pieces,
and bits of cord rope and belt leather to be used as belts.
Copies of stained glass, or Celtic knotwork patterns for the kids to color,

With all this stuff gathered up, the teacher was able to present the history
of the Middle ages with items that the kids could actually touch and play
with. Everyone enjoyed the display, and I didn't have to figure out how to
get a bunch of folks to the school during the day.
One neat benifit of all this was that when I went to the school to retrieve
the items, I was presented with one garbage bag full of neatly pressed
costumes (who would have guessed, that ironed and folded they fit into one
bag : ). I also recived a thankyou letter from all the kids with several
pictures of them running around in our costumes. They looked like they were
having a blast.

This is a good thing to do, and not too hard to accomplish.

Cece Thompson

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sca-middle@midrealm.org
[mailto:owner-sca-middle@midrealm.org]On Behalf Of Dana Cushing /
Austrechild
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 3:24 PM
To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
Subject: Re: [Mid] School Surprise <arggggg>

O lord, it sounds like a bad filk of the Beverley Hillbillies theme song.
*wretch*

Please beg this woman to let your local Scadians in for a demo, a hands-on,
anything to avoid poisoning these kids! austrechild
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From: Dana Cushing / Austrechild <austrechild@sprint.ca>
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Received on Thu Nov 11 16:33:30 1999