Indian Day Celebration

The second Friday of November is the date for our Indian Day Celebration. You will enjoy this fantastic line up of events. Experience a day in the life of an Indian. Eat buffalo and venison, make and wear a costume and leather crafts and fashion a tomahawk, a sling shot, and a bow and arrow. Take a break in one of our five tee-pees, experiment with face paint, make lots of arts and crafts and be part of a fun filled scavenger hunt.

Indian Days at Kingdom Academy celebrates the spirit of the American Indian. Indian Day participants will spend a day on the land creating clothing, headbands, tools, weapons, and crafts all centered on the history of the American Indians. With Cherokee Indian background in the Tuggle Family bloodline, they will create and share from their own heritage as well as other Indian tribes.

Below is a listing of some of the activities that will be available and participants may enjoy all this and much more throughout the day.

• Clothing: Students make their own Indian regalia (special clothing).
• Shelter: participants actually build a tee-pee and a long house from all natural materials.
• Craft Project: Headbands-using leather, feathers, and other natural supplies, students create their own headband.
• Indian Dolls: make your own version of an Indian doll.
• Leather Works: enjoy a variety of leather crafts.
• Bow and Arrows: students make their own bow from a hickory or willow sapling and their own arrows from bamboo and real chicken feathers.
• Face Painting: Gathering your own natural products, students paint their faces for war or peace.
• Indian Food: Sample real Native American recipes including buffalo and venison.
• Slingshots: Using all natural materials, make your own slingshot.
• Tomahawks: With stiff leather and a dowl stick, fashion this weapon.
• Sassafras Tea: Dig sassafras roots and make sassafras tea.
• Moccasins: Two Day Project for adults or students 12 years and older: Sew your own pair of moccasins.
• Identify Herbs: Stroll through the herb garden, the pastures, and the woods and identify many edible wild plants.
• Identify Trees: Designed as a scavenger hunt, learn to identify trees by their leaves and bark.
• Identify Insects: Find bugs skidding across the pond, crawling up trees, along the ground and learn to identify many different species.

This celebration takes place November 12, 2010. Everyone promises to walk away from the event with lots of special memories.

Middle Tennessee Area
Home of the Tuggle Family
1705 Kingdom Rd.
Bell Buckle, TN 37020
931-294-8083
malinda@kingdomacademyofthearts.com

The activities are designed for participants’ ages 5 years and older, with advanced projects for students 12 years and older. However, 3 and 4 year olds that would like to participate in most of the activities are invited to do so, provided they pay the full $30.00 participation fee. An option for younger siblings is to pay a $15.00 supply fee for partial activity. Children four years and younger are welcome at no cost with a paying adult or older sibling if they want to watch the activities or help the older sibling. The event meets from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. In an effort to encourage parents to attend with their children, we do not charge adults for the activities. Parents wanting to participate in the arts and crafts seperately from their child(ren) may pay an optional parent participant fee of $10.00 to cover the cost of supplies. The website does not calculate family discounts during on-line registration but they are always honored upon payment.

It is recommended that all participants and family members bring their own lunch. The most encouraging comment demonstrating the value of these events came during one of our celebrations in 2008 when an eight year old boy participant, Nathaniel Atkinson said, "Mom, this was more fun than Disney."

Price List for Indian Day Celebration:

• Daytime Event Rates: $30.00/participant/day (ages 5-18)
• Family Discount: $5.00 off per child participant for any family of more than two children from the same family. The first two children pay full price and any other siblings receive $5.00 off.
• No cost for parent, grandparent or siblings ages four or younger for any daytime events.
• Family discounts are honored during payment, website cannot calculate discounts!

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