Field Trip Day
Join us Mondays this fall for special family-focused days at the museum! Leave the screen behind and join us for hands-on, experiential learning. Bring your student or you pod to the museum and...
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Folk Craft
Make Your Own Clay Using 3 Household Ingredients
Making your own clay is a very simple process. In this post, we are going to use 3 household ingredients: Water, Baking Soda, and Cornstarch, to make an easy clay recipe that you can use to form...
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Trash Tutorial: Fire Starter
We’ve got another trash tutorial for you! Toilet paper seems to be a hot topic these days, but what do you do with the roll when you finish? If you find yourself throwing away these little...
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Trash Tutorial: Coffee Hand Scrub
With the current pandemic, many of us are reducing the number of trips we take to the store, and trying to stretch our resources as best we can. But what about food waste? Did you know that many of...
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Log Hewing
Curator Barry Stiles takes us through the process of hand-hewing a log. All log cabins in this region of the mountains were made of hewn logs. This was a process for squaring-off logs to make...
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Simple Homemade Cloth Napkins
In this day and age, disposable items have become a way of life. So much so, that when there is a shortage of items, it becomes a major inconvenience for us. We often don’t stop to think about how...
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Upcycled Yarn
Looking for a weekend project, but your craft stores are still closed? Try recycling those pesky plastic grocery bags into yarn! These plastic strips can be used like any other string in knitting,...
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Homemade Cotton Mask Sewing Tutorial
With the shortage of masks, here is a simple tutorial on how to make a double layer cotton mask. Please note, these masks are still more porous than the recommended N95 masks, but can still help...
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