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Demo ideas? I hope so
Apr. 18th, 2006 11:40 pmI just posted three 'demo station' ideas on my local list in the wild hope that one of them will appeal to the new folks who want to help but don't have any ideas of what to do. You know, *I* want to do some of them and I'll be off at an event that weekend! Good thing we have more demos coming up. I think it would be fun. Here's the ideas:
What Was Your Life?
Using dice or spinners, a visitor gets to roll/spin what strata of society they were born into, what they became, if they were rich or poor, how much they were educated, and how they died. This would only take five dice (large wooden squares) and an evening of painting them to create the 'kit'. Kids would like it most but strolling adults would probably be intrigued enough to want to try it - easy to man, no set-up or tear-down needed, just a table and a chair for the demo-person. Yeah, it's pretty much a rip from "RPG" manuals, but hey - I think I'd be intrigued if someone was saying, "Come on, take a chance. How did you live? Were you a Monk, a Knight, a charwoman? Hmmmm?"
Make your own heraldry
Using a selection of outlines of charges (nabbed in one huge copying session from That Famous Heraldry Book) and transparent paper, folks can quickly create their 'own heraldry'. All we'd need to add is some pencils and markers. Someone from the SCA could sit at a table and help people trace out and color their own devices. A simple guide about things like "no color on a color" would be all that was needed.
Make Your Own Book
A single sheet of paper can be folded to create a six-page book (the paper is folded "quantrain", I think the word is) and with a string, can be tied to become a small notebook. If the demo-person wanted to, they could have pencils and markers available for decorating the front of the book. (Brigit and I figured out how to do this and I really like the little book - it does not look like 'folded paper', it really looks like a book with few pages. At one time, I was going to make a bunch to leave as A&S appreciation tokens with a little note from me on the last page. But then I decided that would be hokey.)
Oh. I just thought of another one. As long as we have markers, why couldn't we have a 'make a stained glass window design" table? I know folks do it in camp and art class, but that was then and this would be on a nice, sunny day...
What Was Your Life?
Using dice or spinners, a visitor gets to roll/spin what strata of society they were born into, what they became, if they were rich or poor, how much they were educated, and how they died. This would only take five dice (large wooden squares) and an evening of painting them to create the 'kit'. Kids would like it most but strolling adults would probably be intrigued enough to want to try it - easy to man, no set-up or tear-down needed, just a table and a chair for the demo-person. Yeah, it's pretty much a rip from "RPG" manuals, but hey - I think I'd be intrigued if someone was saying, "Come on, take a chance. How did you live? Were you a Monk, a Knight, a charwoman? Hmmmm?"
Make your own heraldry
Using a selection of outlines of charges (nabbed in one huge copying session from That Famous Heraldry Book) and transparent paper, folks can quickly create their 'own heraldry'. All we'd need to add is some pencils and markers. Someone from the SCA could sit at a table and help people trace out and color their own devices. A simple guide about things like "no color on a color" would be all that was needed.
Make Your Own Book
A single sheet of paper can be folded to create a six-page book (the paper is folded "quantrain", I think the word is) and with a string, can be tied to become a small notebook. If the demo-person wanted to, they could have pencils and markers available for decorating the front of the book. (Brigit and I figured out how to do this and I really like the little book - it does not look like 'folded paper', it really looks like a book with few pages. At one time, I was going to make a bunch to leave as A&S appreciation tokens with a little note from me on the last page. But then I decided that would be hokey.)
Oh. I just thought of another one. As long as we have markers, why couldn't we have a 'make a stained glass window design" table? I know folks do it in camp and art class, but that was then and this would be on a nice, sunny day...
