48-HOUR CAMP (Starts 10:00 am)
Consists of the following activities and demonstrations:
- Upon arrival, students will be dressed in period clothing provided by “Old Sierra”
- Nature hike in from front gate all the way to Old Sierra grounds. . . includes authentic Maidu grinding rocks
- Rope making
- Candle making
- Demonstration on spinning wool
- Demonstration on blacksmithing
- Caring for farm animals
- Butter making
- Demonstration on pioneer cooking with dutch ovens
- Students will sleep in buck skinner teepee and historically accurate tents built specifically for the “Old Sierra” camp experience
- Stories, singing and authentic pioneer diary reading around the campfire at night
- “Nichols Mercantile” and “Old Sierra General Store” will be open and functioning right in the “Old Sierra Homestead” . . . an’ they be plum full of handmade crafts and goodies!
- Students receive a lesson on covered wagon construction and usage – identifying various wagon parts and their functions
- Lesson on spinning wool into usable yarn – students participate and this includes a lesson on clothing production of time
- Demonstration on flint and steel fire starting – sire without matches
- Preparation and completion of beef jerky over open fire
- Advanced buck skinning – replaces intermediate buck skinning
- Tin punch lesson which students will keep their project
- Blacksmith makes a gift for the teacher
- Lesson on animal tracking
- Indian and Mountain Man doll making which student will keep their project
- Native American cordage – ropes from plants which students will keep
- Complete lunch and supper on day one, complete breakfast, lunch, and supper on day two, and complete breakfast on day three
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