Children's Program
odd: label: Introduction
content: The Children's Area was a magnet to young visitors during the Bicentennial Festival. The Hill and Sand area provided the three essential elements of earth, sand, and water, inviting children to transform the landscape with castles and forts, quarries and caves, as dreams emerged from the blank sand canvas. In the dirt-floored Marble Ring, parents could teach their children, and children could bring their parents up to date on the ways of aggies, steelies, puries, and cats' eyes. The Game Ring had a tree club-house and materials for building on additions; games of all sorts were also played here: tug of war, jump rope, squirt gun fights, four square, hop scotch, football.

In the Crafts Tents, the articles useful in play were constructed; children and adults made doll houses and dolls, folded paper cootie catchers, soap box derby cars, wooden sailboats. The Folk Swap Tent was for the exchange of secret languages and riddles, counting out rhymes and ghost stories. Here, costumes and puppets were also fashioned for the Stage, where children from local schools and clubs shared their performance traditions - clapping games, circuses, stunts, and parades. Sometimes adults taught the traditional games and playparties that they remembered so lovingly from their own childhoods.

The program was coordinated by Kate Rinzler, assisted by Saucie Melnicove.
label: Presenters and area supervisors
content: Jean Alexander, Jeffrey Byrd, Jacqueline Cook, Peter Crowley, Jean Kaplan, Betsy Nadas, Marcella Nichols, Rosa Scott, Suzy Seriff, Kim Storey, Willie Demps
label: Participants
content: Stu Jamieson, folklorist

Bessie Jones, 1902-1984, folklorist, Brunswick, Georgia

Vanessa Jones, folklorist

Mei Jiun Mai, Chinese folklore

Andrea Meditch, folklorist

Ann Mitchell, quilter

Tinson Mortensen, woodworker

Tom Murphy, woodworker

Paul Ofori-Ansah, folklorist

Mary Scherbatskoy, folklorist

Dorothy Stroman, folklorist

Lu Yu, Chinese folklore

Yung Ching-Yeh, Chinese folklore

Schools

Bancroft Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Brent Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Brightwood Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Burrville Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Capitol Hill Day School, Washington, D.C.

Dale Wilson Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Edmonds-Peabody Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Lamont Elementary, New Carrolton, Maryland

Long Branch Elementary, Arlington, Virginia

Mott Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Parkland Jr. High, Rockville, Maryland

Piney Branch Middle School, Takoma Park, Maryland

Simmons Elementary, Washington, D.C.

St. Rita Parochial School, Alexandria, Virginia

Stevens Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Takoma Park Elementary, Takoma Park, Maryland

Thomas Stone Elementary, Mt. Rainier, Maryland

Thomson Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Washington International School, Washington, D.C.

Watkins Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Wheatley Elementary, Washington, D.C.

Woodmore Elementary, Mitchellville, Maryland

Girl Scout Troops

Brownies Troop 645, Brownies Troop 2188, Brownies Troop 2467, Cadettes Troop 741, Cadettes Troop 801, Cadettes Troop 1149, Juniors Troop 512, Juniors Troop 968, Juniors Troop 1363, Juniors Troop 1524, Girl Scout Troop 11, Girl Scout Troop 401, Girl Scout Troop 1129, Girl Scout Troop 1466, Girl Scout Troop 1745, Girl Scout Troop 1821, Girl Scout Troop 2344, Vero Beach, Florida Girl Scout Troop Juniors 1980, Geneva, Ohio Girl Scout Troop 496, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Girl Scout Troop 46J, Senior Scouts of '76

Campfire Girls Troop 439

Boy Scout Troops

Cub Pack 87, Cub Pack 114, Cub Pack 166, Cub Pack 200, Cub Pack 248, Cub Pack 389, Cub Pack 445, Cub Pack 621, Cub Pack 640, Cub Pack 662, Cub Pack 691, Cub Pack 725, Cub Pack 781, Cub Pack 937, Cub Pack 1039, Cub Pack 1048, Cub Pack 1282, Cub Pack 1414, Cub Pack 1441, Cub Pack 1584

Arlington County, Virginia Recreation Centers

Anne Murphy, Anne Suter, Dawson Terrace, Drew, Germantown, Jackson, Jefferson, Kenmore, Lee, Lubber Run, Madison, Stratford, Swanson, Walter Reed, Yorktown

Washington, D.C. Recreation Centers

Amidon, Anacostia, Arboretum, Bald Eagle, Banneker, Barry Farms, Benning Park, Benning Terrace, Bertie Bachus, Brent, Brentwood, Bruce Park, Bundy, Congress Heights, Douglass, East Capitol, Eliot, Evans, Fairfax, Fort Greble, Francis, Frazier, Friendship House, Greenleaf, Hardy, Hart, Hearst, Hillcrest, Hine, Jefferson, K. C. Lewis, Keane, Kelly Miller, Kenilworth, King, Lafayette, Logan, Ludlow, Malcolm X, Maury, Mayfair, Mitchell Park, Montana, New York Avenue, North Michigan Park, Orr, Parkside, Payne, Peabody, Powell-Lincoln, Randall, Ridge, River Terrace, Roper, Rosedale, Savoy, Seaton, Sherwood, Slowe, Sousa, Stoddert, Taft, Terrell, Thompson, Trinidad, Tyler, Virginia Avenue, Watkins, Woodland, Woodson

Fairfax County, Virginia Recreation Centers

Cameron, D.R. Tinn, Garfield, Greenbriar, Hayfield, Hunt Valley, Hunters, Little Run, Parklawn, Spring Hill, Woodlawn, Woods

Montgomery County, Maryland Recreation Centers

Area 1, Area 2, Area 3, Area 4, Area 5, Camp Breezy Hollow, Camp Meadowbrook, Cannon Road, Cashell, Fox Chapel, Mill Creek Towne, Page, Pinecrest, Watkins Mill

Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission Recreation Centers

Adelphi, Area 2, Area 4, Area 6, Arts Program, Beltsville, Bowie, Camp Dawana, Morningside, New Carrolton, Seabrook, South Laurel, Valley View

Camps

Arlington YMCA, Barrie Day Camp, Becky Mark's group, Camp Dawana, Camp Green Acres, Camp Greenway, Camp Pinto, Campfire Ga-Ro-Da, Ebenezer Methodist Church, Pin Oak 4 H Club, Safari Day Camp, Town and Country
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1976 Festival of American Folklife
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.1976, Series 3
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content: Archival materials