Magic and Mayhem

I wrote up a news bit about our HS day at the petroglyphs and included a slide show of lots of the fun stuff we did here.  We had a relatively small turnout (13 kids) but I think everybody  had fun and I got good feedback.  In the slide show you’ll see the kids even assembled a tipi themselves!  This was the first time they did that with the kids and they tried out the program on our group.  The kids also got to flintknap their own arrowheads so they got to do lots of really authentic stuff, which is one thing I love about events at the petroglyphs.

I’ve been doing these events for years now and part of me loves to run them and part of me is discouraged that local HS families just don’t turn out.  One mom traveled 3 hours with her 2 daughters and 2 HS friends and said she’s interested in taking part again, yet most of the local families have never driven the 20 minutes to check it out.

I guess I’ll continue to run them as long as even one other family shows up and as long as the petroglyphs lets me (they often lose money on the events because they bring in staff that would otherwise be off since they’re closed).  I really think we put out wonderful programs and it’s worth the trouble.