Postby TheresaHPIR » Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:04 pm
I'm a tour guide with Haunted and Historic Guyandotte Tours in the Guyandotte section of Huntington, WV.
We offer both historical and haunted history tours of this little town that just celebrated its 200th birthday! Our tours began with a Civil War era only tour hosted in conjunction with Guyandotte Civil War Days. Guyandotte Civil War Days itself has all sorts of activities available for home schoolers in mind. The week leading up to the actual event is filled with educational hands on workshops and living history exhibits during the mornings. We invite our local home school group, as well as a few classes from local elementary/middle schools. There's also a lecture series each weekday evening, which may be of interest to older kids/parents, and that weekend, among the normal battle and festivities are more hands on living history exhibits especially for kids and a kids program by Stan Clardy.
Back to the tours...we offer them year-round now, for various special events, but we also offer private tours for groups. All the tours, even the ghost tours, are heavy on the history, and we can customize the tour to fit certain time periods, certain historical significances/people, architecture, etc...if you can dream it, we can customize a tour for it. We can also tailor to certain age groups.
Its really quite fun...the tour guides all dress up in various period correct attires and we have a few actors portraying some of our more famous citizens. It's educational...and a little out of ordinary for a field trip, lol. I'm actually considering, though, sending out some invitations to our local home school group inviting them to book a tour...all of which are completely FREE. Anyone think anyone would be interested? LOL
Anyway, a few other ideas for fun field trips may include:
1. Professional sports game
2. Factory tours, especially ones where you can taste-test food or take home souvenirs.
3. Any living history presentation, including Civil War reenactments, etc.
4. Museums/IMAX theaters
5. Plays/concerts
6. Bank--when we went there in elementary school, we always got a 50 cent piece. When I was a preschool aide, they gave them a WV state quarter to take home.
7. Papa Johns, lol...I used to be a shift manager there, and since I had been a preschool aide, they'd always make me help with field trips. We'd let the kids make their own mini pizzas using the Cinnapie thingie's crust.
8. Sports Field Day organized by age