Scouts & Homeschools
Book Your Own Adventure: Scouts and Homeschools
Individuals, families, homeschool groups, and scout troops/packs will enjoy these engaging, educational programs. Scroll down to submit an inquiry.
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Shopping Back-in-Time
Price: $9/person
Approximately 60 minutes
Visit the Village and join our costumed interpreters as they lead you through a make-believe shopping trip at our 1910s general store. Students will be given various scenarios involving math, history, and economics (such as needs vs. wants, scarcity, bartering, and incentives). Children will also be given an old-fashioned candy or toy to take home!
Tin Crafts
Price: $8/adult, $10 /child
Approximately 60 minutes
Learn about the importance of tin products in the 1800s as well as today’s households. You’ll also learn about the job of a tinsmith. Children will be taught how to punch patterns on tin and make crafts to take home.
Pioneer Kids: Chores
Price: $9/person
Approximately 90 minutes
Learn about life in a cabin on the frontier. Kids had a lot of chores to do back then; get hands on with history as you spend time in a log cabin and experience the life of a pioneer kid by doing the chores they would have done. Appropriate for 1st grade and older.
Letterboxing
Price: $8/adult, $11/child
Approximately 60-90 minutes
Find clues leading to hidden “letterboxes” all over the Village. You’ll create your own
personalized stamp, then trade and collect stamp images as you follow the clues. Remind you of geocaching? Ages 7 and up (readers). Meets “Letterboxer” badge requirements.
Playing the Past
Price: $9/person
Approximately 90 minutes
Be a student in the one-room school. Spend time in our Log Cabin while the fire blazes. Try
chores from the past like making butter and carrying water with a yoke. Have some
old-fashioned fun! Meets “Playing the Past” badge requirements.
Scouts Woodworking
Price: $8/adult, $14/child
Approximately 90-120 minutes
Cut, hammer, and build as Cadette Scouts and Bear Scouts make an individual project, a tool caddy. Practice your skills to use a hammer, saw, level, and a screwdriver. To schedule your troop or den, please give at least three weeks’ notice for us to prepare materials. Meets GS Cadette “Woodworker” and Cub Scout “Baloo the Builder” requirements.
Earth Rocks for Scouts
Price: $8/adult, $12/child
(Add-on a Petoskey Polishing workshop for additional $2/person. Please notify Village at time of booking if you would like this add-on)
Approximately 90 minutes
(120 minutes if adding-on Petoskey Polishing Workshop)
Hey Rock Hounds! Learn how rocks and minerals can be S.I.M.P.L.E and explore all different types. Break open a geode to see how minerals can form beautiful crystals and grow your own! Use our minerals or bring in your own to test using MOH’s Scale of Hardness. To schedule your troop or den, please give at least three weeks’ notice for us to prepare materials. This program fulfills most of the requirements for “Webelos Earth Rocks”. This program is for ages 8 and up.