GIFT SHOP 

The Cahill School gift shop contains a variety of merchandise typically used by children in pioneer Minnesota, including cotton sunbonnets, matching doll sunbonnets, slates, slate pencils, handmade soap, tin lunch pails, marbles, etc. The items are for sale during the lunch break. Please prepare your students (and their parents!) by telling them what’s available and asking that children bring money in envelopes on which parents indicate which of these items their children may buy:

• Handmade girls’ sunbonnets ($10) and matching dolly sunbonnets ($5)
• Boys' bandana neckerchiefs ($5)
• Coonskin caps ($10)
• Bags of marbles with instructions ($4.50)
• Bags of jacks ($4)
• Bags of hopscotch materials with instructions ($4.50)
• Old-fashioned slates with slate writer and wiper ($10)
• Slate writers ($1) and cloth slate wipers ($0.50)
• Cedar pencils ($1)
• Lesson books Grades 1-5 ($1)
• Quill pens with ink recipe ($3)
• Cahill tin buckets ($7)
• Tin cups ($5)
• Handmade soap wrapped in wiper ($1)
• Bird Houses ($12)
• Cahill School and Grange Hall postcards and stickers ($0.50)
• Farming in Early Minnesota illustrated book ($9.95)