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Welcome to the Dodge County
Historical Society
Kids Page!

 

 

 

The Society has made a commitment to provide a friendly place for children to come and learn about our local, national and world history. One way we have accomplished this is to partner with our local school district's Project Aware program. Fourth Graders citywide take an architectural walk with volunteers. At the end of the walk, the children visit our museum. Staff here split the classes into groups and help them tour the museum. Various activities are planned for the children.

 

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One such activity is a game called WHO AM I? or WHAT AM I? Students are given sheets with pictures of items or people that appear in the museum. In playing the game, the visiting kids get to better understand the people and things that helped form our community and nation.

 

 

Another activity was the showing of slides from the 1940's and 50's of some of the attractions at the local Swan City Park,
i.e. Indian Night at the Bandshell.
Attractions that took place at the very Architectural structures
the students had just seen in present time during their walk.

 

 

 

Another joyous occasion is our Children's Christmas Open House.
The museum is opened on an early December Saturday
exclusively for children and their parents to come in
and enjoy the Society's festive season's decorations.
Children are encouraged to make 2 ornaments:
one to hang on the Museum's tree and the other
one to take home for their own tree. Also an entertainment program
is provided. Local high school students through the
Beaver Dam Area Community Theater's Tell-A-Tale
program put on an enactment of
"THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS."
Also, local puppeteer Rudy Gayton put on a wonderful marionette show.

 

 

For more information about events and activities, contact us at
920-887-1266 or dchs@powercom.net

 

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