Program options (for Grades K – 6):

• Interpretive
• Hands-on
• Guided tour
• Day Camp program

Program runs from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Picnic tables are available to use for lunch break if bringing bag lunches.
The Livery Barn Restaurant is open for lunch. Lunches need to be pre-ordered at least two weeks in advance. Information is available at time of booking.

Interpretive Program:

• Program offered during May, June and September (Tuesday – Friday)
• Focus is to tour the outdoor village
• Group leaders will be given a map and outline of tour
• Students will go from building to building where they will be welcomed by interpreters in period costume
• Students have opportunity to experience how life was lived in late 19th century Mennonite villages.

Experiences:

• Activities will vary for different grades and may include:

• Visit the semlin (underground house)
• Watch an interpreter spin wool at the house-barn
• Sample schnetje (biscuits) and fresh rhubarb jam at the summer kitchen
• Visit the Old Colony Church
• Stop at the windmill and observe the miller at work
• Watch the blacksmith make horse shoes and/or nails
• Watch the printer at the printery
• Go on a horse drawn wagon ride (weather permitting)

For More Information:

Call 204-326-9661
Schedule and instructions will be emailed prior to visit.

Download the booking form here.

Two separate indoor programs available:

• Grades K – 3 (“The Mennonites: Then and Now” meets criteria for General Learning Outcomes C, I, D, L, T, and G)
• Grades 4 – 6 (meets criteria for General Learning Outcomes I, D, L, T, G, and E)

Program is similar to outdoor Hands-on program in summer:

• Program runs from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
• Children dress in vests and aprons depicting simple wardrobe of early Mennonites
• Explore life of Mennonite immigrants from a child’s perspective
• Activities emphasize the role of a pioneer Mennonite child within family and community
• Five areas are highlighted in each program: Migration, Home, Work, School, Play

Activities will vary for different grades and may include the following:

• Listening to a story (illustrated with large pictures) of a pioneer family while snowed inside their semlin (sod house). Weather permitting, story may be told inside the semlin.
• Packing a trunk with replica items for Mennonite immigrant family moving from Russia to Manitoba in 1864.

• Writing on a slate with slate pencils in a Mennonite private school setting.
• Learning to write with quill pen and ink in Mennonite private school setting.
• Watching spinning wool and/or learning to quilt a comforter.
• Carding and spinning wool, darning socks, braiding rugs.
• Making a handkerchief toy (“kodda pup”).
• Playing traditional Mennonite circle games.
• Learning to use and handle wood working tools.
• Learning to do laundry on wash board and mangle.
• Learning to bake biscuits (schnetje).
• Optional – wagon or sleigh ride (weather permitting).

For More Information:

Call 204-326-9661
Schedule and instructions will be emailed prior to visit.

Download the booking form here.

BOOK NOW

Two separate indoor programs available:

• Grades K – 3 (“The Mennonites: Then and Now” meets criteria for General Learning Outcomes C, I, D, L, T, and G)
• Grades 4 – 6 (meets criteria for General Learning Outcomes I, D, L, T, G, and E)

>Program is similar to indoor winter program:

• Program runs from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
• Children dress in vests and aprons depicting simple wardrobe of early Mennonites.
• Explore life of Mennonite immigrants from a child’s perspective.
• Activities emphasize the role of a pioneer Mennonite child within family and community.
• Five areas are highlighted in each program: Migration, Home, Work, School, Play

Activities will vary for different grades and may include the following:

• Listening to a story (illustrated with large pictures) of a pioneer family while snowed inside their semlin (sod house). Story will be told inside the semlin;
• Packing a trunk with replica items for Mennonite immigrant family moving from Russia to Manitoba in 1874;
• Writing on a slate with slate pencils in a Mennonite private school setting.
• Learning to write with a quill pen and ink in a Mennonite private school setting.
• Watching spinning wool and/or learning to quilt a comforter.
• Carding and spinning wool, darning socks, braiding rugs.
• Making a handkerchief toy (“kodda pup”).
• Playing traditional Mennonite circle games.
• Learning to use and handle wood working tools.
• Learning to do laundry on a wash board and a mangle
• Learning to bake biscuits (schnetje).
• Optional – wagon ride (weather permitting).

For More Information:

Call 204-326-9661
Schedule and instructions will be emailed prior to visit.

Download the booking form here.
BOOK NOW

Dear Middle Grades Teacher:

The Mennonite Heritage Village offers a Winter Program to students/teachers in the middle grades that enhances the Manitoba Social Studies Curriculum. The Mennonite way of life in the late nineteenth century will be emphasized through hands-on activity & instruction. This program meets general Learning Outcomes I, D, L, T, G, E.

For additional information or to make a reservation, please contact:

Mennonite Heritage Village
Phone 204-326-9661 Fax 204-326-5046

Download the booking form here.

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• This program is offered during October (Monday – Friday)
• Program length is 1 hour
• Curriculum connection Grade 3
• Focus is to help children understand the strength, stability, and configuration of construction materials used in structures
• Students will build a triangle in the workshop
• Students will go to three different locations within the village
  • Windmill
  • Public school for a model station
  • Workshop for a hands-on station

For More Information:

Call 204-326-9661
Schedule and instructions will be emailed prior to visit.

Download the booking form here.

BOOK NOW