time travel getting youngsters interested in FH

[brigidmac]

we actually had to defer that session

As there is a motor show in my street this Sunday I think I will focus on 30's 40's and 50's  to match the old cars
Hope I can organise some visitors this week .I've got to start charging for kids clubs ..at least by donation .

One of my workmates does 40's style songs and she wears the hair + clothes of the time if she has a gig

Has anyone else noticed that ww2 era dresses seem to be having a revival /

[Cell]

In my own experience children really like "hands on" things.
I have a 10 yr old history buff and has been doing it since he was 5 off his own back.

Try putting something as a simple as a  typewriter in front of the 7 yr olds ( easily picked up at a charity shops for just a few dollars/pounds). a record a player is another one.  You'll be amazed by their interest and  wanting to know more instead of some boring presentation in powerpoint etc.

The typewriter always works (even on adults  )

Kind regards

[brigidmac]

Great idea cell I don't even have to buy antiques
 I have a double tape recorder and cassette s and  .this contains recordings of children singing and telling stories about their lives in Algeria in the 1980's it also has my father ( best story teller ever ) reading a Djeha (hoja ) story.  So we can travel to 1980 .s sahara
 I have a couple of mystery objects from day to day life
the darbouka drums and the words to a song written by a local family.

I just realised that I've been using an iron iron as my doorstop not sure how old that is

And I have a butter churn thing that I .m going to donate to a living museum


What about the negatives we found in my dad's wallet along with photos ..would a nine year old know what they are .?

Or a thimble .a rubik cube .a dictaphone (,I have the interviews recorded byGreat Glen hall elderly lady about ww2 evacuees to the records ffice to transcribe )

My house still has the gas fittings in most rooms.. so that's a bit of a treasu re hunt

Leicester has a lovely little gas museum in town attached to the gas works where you can light the lamp see old cookers etc they don't get any visitors so are really welcoming

[C_W]

Our local gallery recently held a small exhibition  "Pong to Play Station".

It was great. They had games from the first hand held Space Invaders, the first teaching alphabetic toys etc, as well as working computer games. The old Pong tennis game attracted great attention from the youngsters. Like me grandparents playing with their grandchildren. Then at the other extreme the children could try the latest Play Station game, with their fantastic graphics,  that the grandparents couldn't understand!

[brigidmac]

that sounds fun C-W

well I've got a cassette with party games ;hokey cokey , conga ,

so if weather keeps fine we can do that in the garden on weds ..along with French elastic, hopscotch ,poddy 123,   

I'm calling it return to 70's but some of these games are much older i suppose .

as will have other language speakers simple games may be the best ....ring a roses ,farmers in his den

[dowdstree]

Love you discussion and replies to this topic.

Not quite on the same level but a few years ago when my grandson was in P2 (aged 7) his teacher asked my husband and myself if we would like to go into the class one afternoon and do a sort  of question and answer session with the children on what life was like when we were children (both born in the 1940's). We all really enjoyed it and the children were really interested in our stories about school, toys, life without a telly or computer technology. They had so many questions including one from our own grandson asking if we rode penny farthings when we were kids 

I took in a school photo taken in the early 1920's of my dad and his classmates. Some of the children had no shoes on and were very poorly dressed. What a discussion we had on how poor people could be in those days. My grandson was pleased that his grandpa looked smart and had shoes.

To go back a little further I also took in a photo of my great grandparents and their 10 children ranging in age from 4 to 24 taken in 1915. This made for a great discussion too.

The teacher took copies of the photos and I believe they are still being used in the school for discussions on the "olden days".

Dorrie

[brigidmac]

that's lovely Dorrie

reminded me we once took photos of ourselves as babies into class and the teacher put one in of "when he was a little girl" boys were in baptism dresses i suppose

we had to guess which baby had grown to be which child ..I don't know what we were learning but it was a good game !

the people on the photo forum are phenomenal

I love looking at family resemblances ..you are so lucky to have those phoptos of ggfather + siblings

[jaybelnz]

You could try telling them some food related things too.  Only the local fish and chip shops for "takeaways" - and buying vegetables from the man with a horse and cart - people's milk being measured out of cans, into their own containers, again from the horse and cart. No fridges, no cars

A couple more games, Oranges and Lemons, clapping songs with chants.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Not quite on topic, but you mentioned childhood photos - quite a few years back, as part of a fundraising charity thing, all of the teaching and other staff brought in childhood photos, and they were displayed (safely behind an Acrylic sheet, so no graffiti could be added to spoil the originals) and pupils paid a tiny sum to try and identify which Teacher etc. was which child. At end - and two got ALL right - current photos were put by each childhood one, for a few days, and provoked even more comments. Pupils simply couldn't get their heads round black-and-white pics, or what children wore - "In the Olden days, Miss, when you were young"