Get ready for Spring with Art teacher Kara Rose! Learn to make this whimsical Spool Flower Garden! All materials are included. Landis Valley Museum Store Second Floor. Proceeds Benefit the Museum. All sales are final. Proceeds benefit the Museum.    

Would you like to learn how to bake in a 1700’s outdoor bake oven? Join our basic class where you will learn how to safely fire, hoe and mop a bake oven. We will be making bread, rolls and other treats. Be sure to bring a light lunch as we will be sampling the finished […]

Learn the art of Fraktur and false grain painting with artists Lynn Sommer and Jim King. In this class you will paint a fraktur and a frame to put it in! All materials are included. Landis Valley is featuring false grain painting in our newest exhibit, “The Pennsylvania Germans, Their Lives in Color!”  All Materials […]

Learn about shop safety, techniques for lighting and maintaining a coal fire, hammer control, drawing out, scrolling, fullering, half face blows and riveting as you complete your project. Hot punching, hot cutting, and forge welding will also be covered.  For ages 16 and up only. Students should bring safety glasses, sturdy shoes, cotton gardening or leather […]

Peanut Basket: This is an old southern basket.  Hold your peanuts/pistachios on one side and the shells on the other. It has a very unique bottom to hold everything inside.  If you don’t like nuts other uses are fun…remotes etc. Students need to bring: measuring tape, sharpened pencil, a brick wrapped in plastic wrap, 12 […]

Maximum # of students: 8 In this introductory workshop to leather working, students will make a reproduction leather document case, based on an original owned by a shoemaker in the 1740’s. Skills and information will be taught in the following: Shop safety; Understanding types of leather and their uses; Basic cutting, paring, and other knife-work […]

Learn the Pennsylvania German technique of etching delicate designs onto a naturally dyed egg with Landis Valley Workshop leader and master dyer Linda Taylor. Learn about the different color dyes as you work! All Materials included. All Sales are final. Proceeds benefit the Museum. Provides for three eggs and a box

Grow your own orchard from apples you graft yourself. Learn how to take a living stick of one type of apple tree and splice it onto a completely differently variety of apple tree at this make and take class. Please bring a sharp knife and dress in layers. This is a “make and take” workshop, […]