Candlemaking

Sonshine Educational Tours highly recommends a visit to this living history museum. There are many “hands on experiences” available.

Spanish Village your students will: make candles, learn to make ropes, play colonial games, corn grinding, woodworking, weaving and fence building.

“Florida Cracker” Pioneer Village: write with quill pens. play old time games, learn cotton combing, use a sewing hornbook.

Timucua Indian Village: play games the Timucuan Indians played, learn how to make a dugout canoe, make shell jewelry.

Archaeological Dig Educational Program: search for artifacts and ecofacts in a mock dig, clean, measure and categorize objects.

These villages will transport your students back to the main time periods in St. Augustine’s history.

Customized Saint Augustine tours can also include:

Colonial Spanish Quarter
Mission of Nombre de Dios
Flagler College
Shops and Restaurants on St. George Street
The Oldest House
The Oldest Wooden School House
Castillo de San Marcos-The Oldest Fort
Oldest Jail and Florida Heritage Museum
Timucua Indian, Spanish-Fort Mose, Florida Cracker-Pioneer, Archaeological Dig Programs
The Oldest Lighthouse
The Fountain of Youth
Tram Tour of St. Augustine