[Sca-cooks] Drinking horns for kids

[Jim and Sandy Toscano]

Smoke and Fire sells small horn cups for $5.00 a piece.  Still might be a
bit pricey for a class project.

http://www.smoke-fire.com/other-camp-gear-1.asp

Eleanor


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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:57:17 -0400
From: Elaine Koogler <ekoogler1 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Drinking horns for kids
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
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Ana Valdes wrote:
> In Sweden, where the Vikings hold wild feasts with mead and salt fish,
> kids do their horns today with cow or bullhorns, when playing "live".
> It should be possible to buy them in a slaughterhouse, I assume they
> are sold as "left overs".
> Ana
>
>
> And the kids can polish them with toothpaste, easy to do and very fun.
>
> On 9/22/06, King's Taste Productions <kingstaste at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> I'm in the middle of my Vikings class, and I have a food class coming up
>> on the 10th of October.  I want to do a feast for them, and would love
>> it if I could figure out some way for each of them to have a drinking
>> horn.  It would be fantastic if it were something they could make for
>> themselves, but not necessary.  I think something made from curled-up
>> paper would not be sturdy enough, but something crafty is the direction
>> I'm thinking in.
>>
>> Anyone have any wonderful ideas?
>>
>> Christianna
>>
>>     
I'm not so sure how easy it would be for kids to clean out a real cow 
horn.  Then there's the problem of making the horn so it can be used as 
a drinking vessel.  It would seem to me that you could use something 
like poster board, roll it around into a horn shape (might not be able 
to get the curve, but you could get the basic shape.  Then, if you're 
using it for cold drinks, you could coat the inside with paraffin wax to 
waterproof it. 

It seems to me that this might work...

Kiri


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