We had our "Winter Quarters" Primary Activity yesterday. It is the first of our three Quarterly Acitvities based on the poineer trek. We were hoping to have a lot cold snow to try to get our kids a small taste of what it would have been like for the children back then. We have had unseasonably warm weather and no snowfall so our snow all melted. Luckily, we had a breeze and a bit of rain so it gave them some cold to deal with. It only lasted one hour and it worked well. We had a fire with songs, snow games (had to improvise for those), cooked cheese bread in a dutch oven, and I had a tarp lean-to and we cuddled under it and share a bit about the history and then played a couple of children games. We are also doing a Primary sampler and started getting the kids to make a stitch on it before we framed it.
It was fun even for us even with cleanup. The kids thought it was great. They are curious about what we are going to do next time "On the Trail", then we will have our own short trek for the Primary kids in the heat of June.
I was hoping to include a picture or two but we all forgot our camera, so we will have to wait to get come copies from some of our teachers who took pictures.
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Love this idea!
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