Local students may take part in SRU academy

SLIPPERY ROCK — Ninth- through 12th-graders may still apply for the Summer Creative and Performing Arts Academy set for July 7 through 18 on Slippery Rock University’s campus.

Visual arts, jazz, dance, theater and creative writing will be covered.

The application brochure can be downloaded from Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV in Grove City or Slippery Rock University Web sites: www.miu4.k12.pa.us/arts/summer_academy.asp or www.sru.edu/pages/4233.asp

Info: Dr. Joseph McCarren, academy director, 724-738-2868l, or Virginia Moore, 724-458-6700, ext. 249.

Discover toys of old at Old Economy Village

AMBRIDGE – Old Economy Village in Beaver County will present “The Joy of Toys” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 12.

Children of all ages, especially those young at heart, will delight in making and playing simple toys and games of long ago.

Play with wooden toys of yesteryear including a rocking goat and a dancing or acrobatic man. Create rags dolls, pinwheels, a thaumatrope, a puppet theater, and a jumping jack, a paper marionette which has delighted children and adults for hundreds of years. Try your hand at hoop and stick or cup and ball, sack races, jump rope, ring toss, stilts and a bean bag toss. What treasures will you find in the fishing pond or on a visit to the “Lady of the Lake”? Play with jumping jacks, wind-up tin toys and more.

Discover the hands-on das Kinderhaus, a child-sized recreation of a 19th century Harmonist household. Venture back into 19th century life as children “prepare” a meal for their family on a small scale cast iron stove and serve dinner on redware platters. Parents will enjoy experiencing a bit of history with their children as they weave a table runner on a loom, dress as a Harmonist, stuff a straw mattress and relax after the day's exertions on a rope bed.

Event activities are included in the cost of admission to the village, which is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors age 60 and older, $5 for ages 6 to 17, and free for children younger than 6.

Info and directions: 724-266-4500.

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