Children's Program
odd: label: Introduction
content: The Children's Program was created to celebrate children's folklife - those things that children teach each other and pass from one generation to the next through friends and siblings. Some of these traditions are hundreds of years old, while others are fairly recent and spreading actively.

To demonstrate children's folklife, young participants were selected in cooperation with schools, scout troops, and camps from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Festival visitors were invited to join participants in presentations in the crafts tent, game ring, hill and sand area, and around the stage.

On the Children's Stage, children demonstrated jump rope rhymes, ring games, clap games, drumming, dancing, singing, play parties, cheerleading, and sparring. In the Crafts Tent, participants made cootie catchers, water bombs, airplanes, and dolls from corn husks, yarn, paper, clothespins, and fabric; they could carve, whittle, draw, and learn crafts from participants drawn from other areas of the Festival. Participants in the Folk Swap Tent heard stories and told elephant jokes, "knock-knocks," "mother-mothers," moral stories, parodies, riddles, secret languages, tongue twisters, ghost stories, and other special areas of lore.

The program was coordinated by Kate Rinzler, assisted by Barbara Melnicove.
label: Participants
content: Groups:

Barrie Camp, Silver Spring, Maryland

Bells Mill Elementary School, Potomac, Maryland

Brent Elementary School, Washington, D.C.

Brightwood Elementary School, Washington, D.C.

Burgundy Farm Country Day Camp

Camp Meadowbrook

Canterbury School

Center Branch YMCA

Edmonds Elementary School, Washington, D.C.

Friendship House, Washington, D.C.

Frost Junior High School, Fairfax, Virginia

Girl Scouts - Port Byron, Illinois

Girl Scouts - Roseville, Michigan

Girl Scouts -Troop 1466

Green Acres Camp, Rockville, Maryland

Hardy Elementary School, Washington, D.C.

Knoxville, Tennessee County Schools

Lafayette Recreation Center, Washington, D.C.

Landon Camp for Boys

Metropolitan Police Boys Clubs, Washington, D.C.

Metropolitan Police Girls Club, Washington, D.C.

Parkland Junior High School, Rockville, Maryland

Piney Branch Middle School, Takoma Park, Maryland

Ross Elementary School, Washington, D.C.

Sligo Junior High School, Kensington, Maryland

Takoma Elementary School, Takoma Park, Maryland

Travillah Elementary School, Potomac, Maryland

Valley Mill Camp, Germantown, Maryland

Watkins Elementary School, Washington, D.C.

Individuals:

Helen Englar, quilter

Stu Jamieson, 1922-2006, folklorist

Bessie Jones, 1902-1984, folklorist

Vanessa Jones, folklorist

Paul Ofori-Ansah, 1942-, folklorist

Claude Yoder, 1904-1991, whittler
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1975 Festival of American Folklife
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.1975, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials