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History, Museums/Events

Indian Territory Days ~Tahlequah, OK

04/01/2014 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

I have never been to the Cherokee Heritage Center so I was pretty happy to attend their Indian Territory Days event!

They have several villages you can tour.

For the event they had games and stations for the kids to learn about the culture.

The first game the boys played was Chunkey.

They were so excited to see and do everything!

There was a big line for the Blowguns.

Basket Weaving.

He was telling them how to make arrowheads.

Finger weaving.

Weaving on a loom.

Pot pinching.

Making a net.

The boys were really excited to listen to the story teller.

Unfortunately there were a lot of older kids in there with us and they begged for a really scary story.

It was way too creepy and intense and we had to leave.

Playing Marbles.

One of the villages.

If you did seven of the stations then you got an arrowhead.

That was the boys goal for the whole event, earn an arrowhead!

They had a lot of fun and this was a great event!

If you missed it this year be sure to mark down the next one!

Museums/Events

Honey Springs Battlefield Re-enactment ~Checotah, OK

11/15/2013 Danielle Huddleston 1 Comment

Even though we went out to the battlefield on Friday for the educational day, I still wanted to go to the battle re-enactment on Saturday.

My boys decided they want to be drummer boys.

They really hate dressing up and playing with guns so I knew re-enactments would hold no appeal to them.

For some reason this guys rifle was REALLY loud.

The crowd gasped when it went off.

I think I have seen this same look on my boys faces when they are sword fighting or shooting at each other.

I am not sure boys ever grow up.

I think their weapons just get more expensive.

If you are wondering who won this battle it was the federal’s.

The federal’s were the government soldiers stationed at the nearby fort.

You can read about it on the battlefield website, here.

The canon fire was LOUD!

It kept setting off the car alarms.

Which made everyone laugh.

Car alarms seemed a little out of place with all the battle sounds.

If you want to encourage an interest in history in your kids I would highly recommend these living history events.

History was loud, dangerous, and exciting!

It was not meant to be contained in a textbook.

History, Homeschooling, Museums/Events

Honey Springs Battlefield Education Day ~Checotah, OK

11/13/2013 Danielle Huddleston 2 Comments

Once every three years the Honey Springs Battlefield has a re-enactment of the civil war battle that took place there.

The day before the re-enactment they had an educational day!

Most people that know me are aware that I am pretty passionate about history.

In fact I leave it as one of the last subjects of the day I teach so I do not spend the whole day on it!

I feel like I am surrounded by like minded people at these history events!

A couple other homeschool mom’s came with me to this event.

Here is my friend Stephanie helping to demonstrate a game that would have been played at that time.

We offered her because she has girls (at least that is the best excuse I could think of).

The boys kept trying to hide from the smoke coming from the blacksmiths fire.

Everyone was nice and very patient!

We saw a lot of the same people that had been at the Homeschool Day at the History center!

I love introducing my kids to history at a young age.

Of course boys hate learning about hero’s and battles.

So difficult to get them into weapons…

And don’t even get me started at how much they hated the loud booms made by the guns.

They suffer through it because they love me so much no doubt.