Page Farm & Home Museum Hosting ‘Passport to the World ‘ Day Camp

Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581-3756

ORONO — The Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine recently showed area children through games and activities how their counterparts existed in early Maine from 1865 through 1940. This week, another group of children is learning about games, history and traditions of other countries, through “Passport to the World” day camp.

Children have been learning about common greetings in other cultures, making T-shirts and “passports” for use during the week, playing international games and making ethnic snacks common to the countries they have been studying. The countries they have “visited” this week have included El Salvador, The Netherlands, Canada and, today, Africa.

Games and activities from Africa include drumming and dancing, in addition to hearing African folk tales and making African snacks, fufu, plaintain chips and lemonade and limeade.

Friday will be dedicated to exploring Asia and China, with Suzhong Tian of the Bangor Chinese School. They’ll make a peace puzzle, see a tai chi demonstration and learn about Chinese calligraphy. The afternoon session will conclude with a service-learning project, helping to clean up the camp, and play some favorite games of the Children’s International Summer Village program.

Area libraries have provided books for use by the children in the week-long day camp.

“Passport to the World” day camp is an annual program of the Stillwater Montessori School held at the Page Farm and Home Museum. It runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Additional information about Passport to the World is available by calling museum Director Patty Henner at 581-4100.