Glebe House Summer Camp Registration Open

WOODBURY — Registration is open for The Glebe House Museum’s summer camps. Taught by professional educators and limited in size (only 10 to 12 campers), the week-long camps will offer children an opportunity to immerse themselves in colonial life.

The sixth annual garden camp will take place June 26-30 for grades one to three, and July 10-14 for grades four to six. Each day campers will learn a different aspect about gardening and garden crafts, and will experience some of the daily chores performed by the children who lived in The Glebe House during the Revolutionary War.

Many activities will be held in the children’s garden, complete with a living teepee. Daily hands-on activities will include making crafts out of natural materials collected from the garden. Campers will care for the colonial garden and learn how to create their own gardens at home. Parents and friends will enjoy an afternoon tea in the garden as well as a tour of the museum and grounds given by their Colonial-costumed young gardener.

The 16th annual history camp will be held for grades one to three, July 10-14, and for grades three to six, July 17-21 and July 24-28. The campers will learn what it was like to be a child in Woodbury 200 years ago.

The children will prepare a traditional Colonial meal, dye and spin wool, and make candles. They will learn Colonial games, songs, butter making and quill writing, and participate in an archaeology “dig.”

They will take a walking tour along historic Main Street in Woodbury, where they will visit a working blacksmith shop, investigate old town records and the Old Burying Grounds, and tour The Hurd House. Family and friends will receive a guided tour of The Glebe House Museum given by their costumed colonial historian.

A Day in the Life camp for grades five through nine will be held July 24-28. The campers will experience firsthand the life of early American artisans by spending each day as an “apprentice” to a Colonial craftsperson, including the cabinetmaker, shoemaker, housewright, silversmith and baker.

Space in the camps is limited and early registration is suggested.

The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden is one of Woodbury’s most important historic sites. The garden was designed in 1926 by the legendary English garden designer to enhance the fine 18th Century architecture of the house and to celebrate its Revolutionary War heritage.

For more information and to register call The Glebe House Museum at 263-2855.