Colonial Williamsburg Announces Kids Holiday Weekends

10-22-2008

 

 

 

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG’S SEASONAL PROGRAMMING EXPLORES

HOW 18TH-CENTURY FAMILIES CELEBRATED THE HOLIDAYS

Kid's Holiday Weekends Expand Program Offerings in 2008

 

WILLIAMSBURG, Va.—Explore how 18th-century families celebrated special occasions during Colonial Williamsburg’s “A Kid’s Holiday Weekend” on Nov. 29–30 and Dec. 13–14, 20–21 and 27–28. This special program for young guests and their families has expanded and includes seasonal traditions such as harvests, Christmas, New Year’s and Twelfth Night. Programs include dressing up for the holidays; 18th-century music, dance, storytelling and a puppet show; celebrating several religious traditions; singing carols; preparing for life passages and children’s moral education; participating in food preparation; leisure activities such as Loo (a popular card game); and introduction to British holiday traditions.

 

These programs are included with any Colonial Williamsburg admission ticket. Guests can enhance their children’s holiday weekend experience with “A Kid’s Holiday Memories” day  package for $15 per person for adults and youth, ages 6 to 17 and $7.50 for children under 6, with any Colonial Williamsburg admission ticket. A parent must accompany his or her child.

 

         

 

The package includes all regular programming plus visiting with a character interpreter, making holiday decorations and playing various colonial games with a trained costumed guide. As guides lead guests through their experience, families will discover where the first Christmas tree was placed in Williamsburg, how colonial Virginians observed Christmas, whether 18th-century children received holiday gifts as children do today, if slaves received gifts, and much more.

 

Established in 1926, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is the not-for-profit educational institution that preserves and operates the restored 18th-century Revolutionary capital of Virginia. Williamsburg is located 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., off Interstate 64. For additional information and reservations or to request a free copy of Colonial Williamsburg’s 2008 Holiday Planner highlighting unique holiday programs, concerts and special dining events, call toll-free 1-800-HISTORY or visit Colonial Williamsburg’s Web site at www.history.org.

 

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