Colonial Day!

Zoe has been counting down the days to Colonial Day for 5th grade. We got to borrow a fun colonial outfit and she was ready to go.

Mrs. Underwood's class (along with all of 5th grade) was decked out in their colonial best!

They spent the day participating in 5 30-minute rotations doing traditional colonial activities.
Zoe's group started with pillow making (sewing). This was the room I was volunteering in...it involved a lot of threading and re-threading of needles, and a few finger pokes!

Time to move on to calligraphy. Zoe realized how long it took, especially when you had to keep re-dipping the "pen"...

Candle making was next. This one took a lot of patience. Lots of waiting, and dipping, and re-dipping, and re-dipping...

Then it was on to colonial games. They had jacks, checkers, marbles, and dominoes. Lacey, Zoe and Dana liked the jacks the best...

The final rotation of the day was food. They started by making butter by shaking whipping cream in bottle. Zoe and Maddyn shook away until it was thick enough to spread on some crackers...
Zoe loved it!!

Then they got to make some delicious corn fritters, topped with powdered sugar, with Mrs. Papagolas...

It was such a fun day for the kids, and they got to do some hands-on learning about what life was like back in the "old" days!