Make a Corn Husk Doll and Tour the Smith-Appleby House

Sep 15, 2012
1:00 pm until 4:00 pm

Families and kids are invited to make their own corn husk dolls during open house tours at the historic Smith-Appleby House Museum on Crafts and Tours Saturday: Corn Husk Dolls.

Hosted by volunteers in eighteenth-century costume, the open house will feature tours and demonstrations throughout the historic landmark home depicting what daily life was like in Colonial Rhode Island.

As part of the tour, kids will learn about how children of the eighteenth century played with dolls they made from corn husks. They’ll also make their own corn husk doll, based upon a Penobscot Indian design, to bring home.

The Smith-Appleby House was originally built circa 1696 as a one-room stone-ender with a loft by Elisha Smith, the grandson of John Smith “The Miller,” one of Roger Williams’s original party of six men who left the Massachusetts Bay Colony to settle in Providence. Expanded by later generations of the family to twelve rooms, today the House is one of a few remaining seventeenth century houses in Rhode Island and features original furnishings, designs and exhibits.

The House is headquarters to the Historical Society of Smithfield.

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Smith-Appleby House Museum
220 Stillwater Rd.
Smithfield, RI
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For more information:

Smith-Appleby House Museum

Telephone: 401-231-7363
Contact name: Maggie
Contact email: contact@smithapplebyhouse.org
Website: http://smithapplebyhouse.org/ai1ec_event/make-a-corn-husk-doll