Indian Days

Study the American Indians while experiencing a day in the life of an Indian. Eat, dress, make crafts and weapons like the Indians really did while learning history. Available April and September.

April and September are the months that Kingdom Academy celebrates the spirit of the American Indian. Indian Day participants will spend the day on the land creating clothing, headbands, tools, weapons, and crafts all centered on the history of the American Indians. With Cherokee Indian background in the Tuggle Family, they will create and share from their own heritage as well as other Indian tribes.

Stations for the following activities will be set up and participants may enjoy each activity throughout the day.

• Clothing: Students make their own Indian regalia (special clothing).
• Shelter: participants actually build a tee-pee and a long house from all natural materials.
• Craft Project: Headbands-using leather, feathers, and other natural supplies, students create their own headband.
• Indian Dolls: make your own version of an Indian doll.
• Leather Works: enjoy a variety of leather crafts.
• Bow and Arrows: students make their own bow from a hickory or willow sapling and their own arrows from bamboo and real chicken feathers.
• Face Painting: Gathering your own natural products, students paint their faces for war or peace.
• Indian Food: Sample real Native American recipes.
• Berry Basket: Using bark from a poplar tree, create your very own special berry basket. (Spring session only-due to the sap in the trees.)
• Sassafras Tea: Dig sassafras roots and make sassafras tea.
• Moccasins: Two Day Project: Sew your own pair of moccasins.
• Identify Herbs: Stroll through the herb garden, the pastures, and the woods and identify many edible wild plants.
• Identify Trees: Designed as a scavenger hunt, learn to identify trees by their leaves and bark.
• Identify Insects: Find bugs skidding across the pond, crawling up trees, along the ground and learn to identify many different species.

The camp is offered twice in April-the 25th and 26th and three Fridays in September-the 5th, 12th, and 19th, 2008.

Middle Tennessee Area
Home of the Tuggle Family
1705 Kingdom Rd.
Bell Buckle, TN 37020
931-294-8083
malinda@kingdomacademyofthearts.com

This camp is designed for participants’ ages 5 years and older, including advanced projects for students 12 years and older. Children four years and younger are welcome at no cost with a paying adult or older sibling. The camp meets from 10:00 until 3:00 each day it is offered. Parents are encouraged to attend with their children. The cost is $30.00 per day per participant. Parents wanting to participate in the arts and crafts need to pay a parent participant fee of $10.00 to cover cost of supplies. This fee will be collected during registration the morning of the event. Parents attending to assist their children attend free. Call for family discounts. Sample food is provided at the outdoor cooking station, but it is recommended that all participants and family members bring a sack lunch.

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