Homeschool Day at Mt Vernon

Mt Vernon had a hands on history day for homeschoolers.  The girls had so much fun learning about our 1st President and especially about how people lived in the 17th & 18th centuries.  They also loved the map of Mt Vernon they each received where they had to find 9 places on the map to find the clues to questions on the back of the map.  If they found all the answers and filled it out they got a prize at the gift shop.

 Here they were shown how and old butter press was used to make the butter into rectangles.

 Then they got to make some butter.

 There was a demonstration on how they use to make their own soap.

 Washing clothes the old fashioned way.

 Picking seeds out of the cotton.

 

 Sienna loved combing the wool to make it soft.

 This is how they use to break flax to make it soft so they could make linen out of it.  I never knew that linen came from flax.

 Demo on how they use to twist a piece of cloth and dip it in beeswax to make their own candles.

It was also fun to watch the blacksmith make tools.

It was a great day and especially Sienna was very interested in how "they used to do things a long time ago."