Celebrate Women’s History Month with your daughter! Girls aged 6 to 12 will experience important history through interactive and fun activities, crafts and stories with the American History Girls’ Club.
The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society will present the next session of its American History Girls’ Club on Saturday, March 15 from 10AM to 11:45AM at the Historical Society’s museum, located at 25 Nottingham Court, corner of Elmwood Avenue.
The March 15 session will feature the “Molly” American Girl® doll and look at the year 1944 in American history. Girls will follow a storyline of three different girls growing up during World War II, including an American, Jewish, and Japanese girl, and learn how each of their lives changed dramatically as a result of the war. Activities will include the following:
• Touring the Historical Society’s Bflo. Made! and Neighbors exhibits to explain how World War II effected industry and immigration.
• Creating Japanese origami objects and learning their significance.
• Constructing homemade kaleidoscopes to demonstrate how children made their own toys from household scrap materials during wartime.
• Planting small “Victory Gardens” of herbs and flowers to take home and observe growing. Victory Gardens were planted by women and children in the United States to provide food directly to families and enable commercial farmers to produce solely for the military.
• Eating fresh fruits and vegetables that were common in Victory Gardens and sampling cinnamon raisin bread made without butter, eggs, or milk (to show how ingredients were limited during the war)
Admission for the American History Girls’ Club session is $20, which includes all craft materials. (There is no fee for an accompanying adult.)
In each American History Girls’ Club session, girls take part in crafts, activities, and a lesson surrounding one of the dolls from the popular American Girl® series. Sessions continue through May 2008 on the third Saturday of each month.
For more information, or to register, contact the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society at 716.873.9644 ext. 310. Or email: education@bechs.org