Designed for students in grades 3 through 8, School Frolics provide four educational and fun-filled hours of learning about Colonial America through living history demonstrations and hands-on activities. 

Frolics educate the whole student by providing a multi-faceted educational experience around the 1719 Hans Herr House and the life and culture of the Swiss-German Mennonites that settled here. This learning opportunity takes place along "The Great Conestoga Road" at the very birth-place of Lancaster County.

The Frolic curriculum guides students through a series of stations at which interpreters demonstrate cooking and crafts, explain Colonial lifestyles, and highlight notable features of the 1719 House and surrounding gardens and orchards.

• Hands on
  Frolic participants receive the unique chance to see, hear, smell, and taste the elements of Colonial life. Students get to play colonial games and participate in demonstrations like basket making, quilting, butter churning, scherenschnitte and fraktur. When they are done, they can wash up with authentic home-made soap.
  
• Authentic
  Frolics reveal the authentic details of 1750 clothing, Germanic architecture, blacksmithing, a four-square German garden, wool spinning, fabric dyeing and treenware.
  
• Flavorful
  Students will enjoy tastes of Colonial life including freshly made butter, smoked sausage, ginger bread and pound cake. Frolics are enhanced by the smells of a blacksmith’s fire, smoke-house smoke, woodshop shavings, livestock and a wood fire on the hearth.

School Frolics at the 1719 Herr House are a great culminating activity to any social studies or history curriculum.

2012 Frolics

Friday, April 27, 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Friday, May 11, 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Friday, May 25, 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Friday, October 12, 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM —with reservation priority for home school students

Among other activities, each school group will be scheduled to participate in three timed events: a house tour, colonial games and the gift shop (optional).

Students—$5
One adult chaperone per 8 students—Free
Additional adults—$4

To register

Contact . Registration is required at least 3 weeks prior to the event.