kids tent (AGES 11-15)
2019 Tween Classes
New this year we have special classes developed just for tweens. The Great Lakes Herb Faire provides an inspiring learning environment for our next generation of herbalists.
BANG, SNIFF, GRAB - The Story of your Senses at Night
Chad O’Kulich - TWEEN CLASS
Get ready to enjoy the mysteries of the darkness when sensory awareness is heightened and storytelling can be most impactful. Many folks fear the darkness due to an insecurity in their own abilities to sense what is happening without vision. This evenings activity will prove them wrong. We will encourage students to step out of their comfort zone, connect to their awareness of the other four senses and explore the beauty of the nighttime. Depending upon the weather, there are 5 different potential senses activities that would be performed this evening engaging the uses of sound, touch, or smell. We will provide a safe environment where limiting the students vision, they will be asked to ‘find their way’ to the ‘end’ either via listening, smelling, or touching. Playing outside at night propels us with confidence into the daytime.
“Playing outside isn't just something that we all did as kids - the reality is being outside enhances our awareness, makes us healthier and happier." -Unknown.
Chad O’Kulich - TWEEN CLASS
Get ready to enjoy the mysteries of the darkness when sensory awareness is heightened and storytelling can be most impactful. Many folks fear the darkness due to an insecurity in their own abilities to sense what is happening without vision. This evenings activity will prove them wrong. We will encourage students to step out of their comfort zone, connect to their awareness of the other four senses and explore the beauty of the nighttime. Depending upon the weather, there are 5 different potential senses activities that would be performed this evening engaging the uses of sound, touch, or smell. We will provide a safe environment where limiting the students vision, they will be asked to ‘find their way’ to the ‘end’ either via listening, smelling, or touching. Playing outside at night propels us with confidence into the daytime.
“Playing outside isn't just something that we all did as kids - the reality is being outside enhances our awareness, makes us healthier and happier." -Unknown.
Sacred Order of Survival - Primitive skills workshop
Chad O’Kulich - TWEEN CLASS
You’ve gone for a walk in the woods. Woods you know so well you decided not to bring your compass. But you catch sight of some Chaga off in the distance, on an otherwise pristine Birch and decide to harvest some. It’s brisk outside, but you figured you’d only be gone for an hour and decided to start cold knowing you’d work up a sweat on your hike. A light snow has begun to fall as you start towards the Chaga. You notice another few edibles around the Birch, and by the time your harvest is complete the ground is blanketed in a thin layer of snow. You head back towards the unmarked trail and notice how beautiful the scenery is. Ten minutes later you realize you must have passed the trail and head back, chilly now, only to find that your tracks are already covered up. The snow is falling harder and you start to panic. Can you survive in the woods?
This intensive will focus on the first two fundamentals in the Sacred Order of Survival: Shelter and Fire. Using Native American philosophies, non-traditional methods and the materials that nature provides, students are challenged to learn necessary outdoor & primitive skills, accomplish collective tasks, & meet the physical demands made on them by Mother Earth. Students will learn how to feel comfortable and confident in nature when all else seems to be lost.
Chad O’Kulich - TWEEN CLASS
You’ve gone for a walk in the woods. Woods you know so well you decided not to bring your compass. But you catch sight of some Chaga off in the distance, on an otherwise pristine Birch and decide to harvest some. It’s brisk outside, but you figured you’d only be gone for an hour and decided to start cold knowing you’d work up a sweat on your hike. A light snow has begun to fall as you start towards the Chaga. You notice another few edibles around the Birch, and by the time your harvest is complete the ground is blanketed in a thin layer of snow. You head back towards the unmarked trail and notice how beautiful the scenery is. Ten minutes later you realize you must have passed the trail and head back, chilly now, only to find that your tracks are already covered up. The snow is falling harder and you start to panic. Can you survive in the woods?
This intensive will focus on the first two fundamentals in the Sacred Order of Survival: Shelter and Fire. Using Native American philosophies, non-traditional methods and the materials that nature provides, students are challenged to learn necessary outdoor & primitive skills, accomplish collective tasks, & meet the physical demands made on them by Mother Earth. Students will learn how to feel comfortable and confident in nature when all else seems to be lost.
Meditation with Mandalas
Sarah Berry
Let’s create mandalas! We will study the history of mandalas for meditative purposes and see examples to inspire our work including flowers and other elements of nature that contain symmetrical designs. Students will use colored pencils and watercolors to design a mandala of their own on paper. We will then create a symmetrical mandala-inspired design on stones using acrylic paints.
Sarah Berry
Let’s create mandalas! We will study the history of mandalas for meditative purposes and see examples to inspire our work including flowers and other elements of nature that contain symmetrical designs. Students will use colored pencils and watercolors to design a mandala of their own on paper. We will then create a symmetrical mandala-inspired design on stones using acrylic paints.
Thrivalism - Beyond Survival
Colleen Donahoe and Greg Monzel We’ll begin with introductions and a group discussion on survival, reviewing various resources and tools humans and other animals use to survive in nature. After establishing the categories of what is needed to survive, food, shelter, water, and medicine, the group will split up into small teams and go on a scavenger hunt to find an item(s) to represent each category (i.e. acorn for food, dogbane for fiber, wood/bark for shelter, etc). Each team will present to the group what they found and how it would help them survive. |