CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS
The Society offers exciting hands on programs for children and school groups on and off site! To sign up for programs, or for more information, please email jnash@maitlandhistory.org or call 407-644-2451.
Programs at the Museums
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Hats, Teas and History: (Grades 1-6) Hats, Teas and History Hats, Teas and History + Game of Croquet (2 hrs) Hats, Teas and History + Birthday Package (1.5 hrs) (Present Table, Party Favors, and Decorations) Add a Birthday Celebration Package Deluxe (2 hrs) (Everything in Birthday Package, plus Cake, Croquet, Birthday Gift from the Society) |
Special packages for Girl Scouts!
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Try-It Hats and Teas: (Brownie Girl Scouts) Special Hats, Teas and History Days are coming in 2010. Click here for more information. Try-It Hats and Teas |
Carpentry Crew: (Grades 2-6)
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Mr. Waterhouse built his house with his bare hands. Come see how he did it! Tour the Waterhouse Residence with our of experienced docents, then take a look at Mr. Waterhouse's Carpentry Shop and finish your tour by making your very own toolbox, birdhouse, or napkin holder, similar to the way that Mr. Waterhouse did. Carpentry Crew Carpentry Crew+ Birthday Package (2.5 hrs) (Present Table, Party Favors, and Decorations) Add a Birthday Celebration Package Deluxe (2.5 hrs) (Everything in Birthday Package, plus Cake, and Birthday Gift from the Society) |
CUB SCOUT CARPENTRY CREWS
Wolf Carpentry Crew
"Tools for Fixing and Building" + "Visit Historic Location"
- Scouts gather at the Waterhouse Residence Museum for a tour
- Scouts visit the Carpentry Shop Museum to learn about the shop and the tools inside including: plane, draw knife, brace and bit (drill), hand saw, scroll saw, hammer and sanding blocks
- Scouts are shown how to use pliers and the difference between the screwdrivers and screws
- Scouts learn how to use a hammer
- Scouts build a birdhouse
Total time: 1.5-2 hours
Cost per Scout, $15.00/scout, $3.00 adult
Maximum # of Scouts 20, maximum # of chaperones 10
Bear Carpentry Crew
"Sawdust and Nails "
- Scouts gather at the Waterhouse Residence Museum for a tour
- Scouts visit the Carpentry Shop Museum to show/learn how to take care of four of the following: hammer, saw, brace and bit (drill), clamp, plane, pliers, wrench
- Scouts use two of the tools listed above to fix something
- Scouts build a toolbox
- Scouts receive Maitland Historical Society patch and take home toolbox
Total time: 2 hours
Cost per Scout, $15.00/Scout, $3 adult
Maximum # of Scouts 20, maximum # of chaperones 10
Webelos Carpentry Crew
"Craftsman"
This program is for Scouts who have previously visited the Historical Society and are familiar with the Carpentry Shop. However, a Waterhouse tour can be added for troops who have not previously visited to familiarize themselves with the museums.
- Scouts gather at the Carpentry Shop Museum
- Scouts tour the Carpentry Shop Museum and review tools
- Scouts review tool safety
- Scouts create a napkin holder
- This project is done under adult supervision and with instructions, but boys complete project on their own
- Boys will use a hand drill and coping saw
- Scouts create a tie holder (pattern in Cub Scout Project Book)
- This project is done under adult supervision with instructions, but boys complete project on their own
- Boys will use a hand drill and coping saw
- Scouts receive Maitland Historical Society patch and take home projects
Approximate total time: 1.5-1.75 hours, all facilitated by MHS staff
Cost per Scout, $15.00
Maximum number of Scouts: 15, maximum number of adults 5
Add tour of the Waterhouse Residence Museum: $1.00/student, $3.00/adult
OUTREACH PROGRAMS
Meet William Waterhouse:
Watch as Mr. Waterhouse discusses his life as a Union Soldier, as a resident of the Andersonville Prison in Georgia, and moving his family to Maitland. This one-man play is available as an addition to your Waterhouse Residence Tour or as a presentation for your school or organization. Please book this program at least 30 days in advance.
Meet William Waterhouse
$200.00/presentation
Maitland History Sleuths MHS (3rd-6th grade):
This 45-minute classroom presentation will give your students a chance to use their critical thinking skills, appreciate the modern advances we have today, and have a good time doing it! Your class will be split up into sleuthing teams. Each team will be given an object and it will be their job to deduce where it came from, what it was used for, and who might have used it. Students are encouraged to try their objects out, to handle them, and to have fun!
Maitland History Sleuths
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Currently free to School Groups
Thanks to a Grant from the Maitland Rotary Club
Free for Members
$25.00/Group of 30 or less, Free with Tour Reservation
Carpentry Crew on the Go
This 2 hour program takes place at your school.
Your students will be introduced to tool safety, proper tool handling techniques, and the life of Mr. William Waterhouse, a Central Florida carpenter, who helped to build the town of Maitland in the late 1880s. After a short presentation about Central Florida history, students will be given a chance to create a craft from wood with historic carpentry techniques used by Mr. Waterhouse.
$10.00/student
Please book programs at least 2 weeks in advance unless otherwise noted.
Sunshine State Standards & FCAT Info
All Maitland Historical Society Programs meet the following elementary Sunshine State Standards and FCAT factors. A more detailed description of standards utilized in specific programming is available upon request.
Sunshine State Standards: The student understands historical chronology and the historical perspective. The Student understands the history of Florida and its people.
FCAT Factors: Students use context clues to determine word meanings. Students recognize cause and effect relationships. Students identify similarities and differences among characters, settings, and events.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT MISSION
The Education Department of the Maitland Historical Society exists to carry out the mission of the Maitland Historical Society through engaging, interactive educational experiences for audiences of differing ages, needs, and backgrounds.
