French QuarTour Kids

01/21/2025

This is a surreal image! New Orleans has never been accused of being a Winter Wonderland, more of a winter escape for northerners. Beautiful Picture!! 👏📸 Marco Rasi (photographer) f/ History. It's supposed to be 6 - 10" of snow- but back up to (almost) 70 by Sunday. Keep warm & safe y'all! We'll see you this weekend.
-> Curfew in effect in St. Bernard Parish!! 6 pm tonight - noon tomorrow.

01/20/2025

Winter Wonderland is coming to NOLA 😳😳🥶 State of Emergency already declared 🫣 and a flurry of memes!! We are closed for tours until at least Thursday. Bundle up yall!! (The last pic is me in Boston- right now! It is beautiful ❄️❄️☃️) there will be lots of happy children in New Orleans this week!!! (Sadly, we still don’t have hills so sledding is out but I bet there will be some pretty cool snowmen around town, wearing beads!)

01/17/2025

Heya locals, please tell your kids’ teachers about STEM Library Lab!! They are a fantastic resource for local teachers with a free lending library of tools for teaching math and science!! Telescopes, magnetic elements, rock collections- an incredible array of stuff most schools do not have and teachers don’t need to buy- just borrow. It’s in Metairie, near Target. I discovered them toward the end of my teaching time but the resources and support there makes teaching science and math so, so fun!! (They inspire me to daydream about becoming that resource for ELA & Social studies…)

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01/10/2025

Our website is working again!! I am using Wix- and there’s even a chat option that works! And it connects to me- not a bot. Pretty exciting! Please check it out. If you see anything broken or that I should improve, suggestions are welcome!!
Www.frenchquarterkidstours.com

01/08/2025

Our website is temporarily broken... Please email, text, or call us to book. 504-975-5355. I'm lost in a strange world of new acronyms. Just when I thought education had more acronyms than any other field, I run into CNAMEs, ANAMEs, DNS, ICANN, API yada yada yada... I do not have enough RAM for all that!!
Hope to see y'all soon!
Jill

10/25/2024

Have fun everyone!! We are packed this weekend but there are a few spots tonight and Sunday afternoon.

09/27/2024

The humidity is gone and October is (almost) here!!!!
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Look at all the fun things to do!!!

From Saints football to trick-or-treating ... October brings all sorts of annual celebrations and traditions! We love this month because it's a time of t…

09/19/2024

Boo!!! Save the date: October 19th. The weekend before the Taylor Swift shows. One of my favorite parades in the city!!

09/19/2024

It's almost my favorite month!! I am so excited to get Halloween season started!! 🎃👻🍭 ✅ visited Spirit Halloween. ✅ cute new ghost earrings. ✅ cauldron is ready to roll. And you can tell the humidity is getting ready to leave!! Let the ghost hunts begin!!

09/08/2024

We are hiring!! Looking for a couple of teacher / guides available at least one morning during the week to lead field trips! Weekends and school vacations are also busy. We have an immediate hire for our history tours for kids 4 - 12 years old but potential for more tour options (Halloween is coming & our Spooky Tour is a blast with the kids in Halloween mode!!) Please email me with resume and questions! Thanks [email protected]

09/04/2024

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09/03/2024

We have finally started offering customized birthday parties for kids!! If your little one is having a birthday soon (or if it just passed), check out this great guide for birthday parties! Our parties are totally customizable with lots of options to make it special for the birthday boy / girl!

The beautiful birthday girl here is our friend Jeff's daughter from A Street Tour Named Desire/Confederacy of Cruisers Bike Tours! They even have kids bikes so the whole family can go on tour! (Hopefully, this will be one of the options soon available for birthday parties too!)

07/15/2024

I would love a little support on this project! I want to make a Scratch n Sniff Tour for kids based on Nola history. Married a chemist, no problem, right? But he’s insisting it’s not possible & a bad idea. 2
Different arguments to counter!! (Rotten meat, open sewers, horse p**p, human sweat, cotton / sugar blooming, bone marrow hair gel….)

To accurately tell Nola history, it’s not all pretty smells. (We were rivaled with NYC for smelliest city in the 1830s- I dont think Peter Stuyvesant could even argue with that!!) BTW, We don’t shy away from teaching kids about slavery bc I think it’s important they know it but that would be harder to capture in a smell. But engaging the senses is so impactful in learning!! Ideas invited! We keep the tour kid friendly so we omit the truly awful bits but encourage further learning / curiosity.)

I’m going to give a shout out to Plimoth Plantation, Sturbridge & Colonial Williamsburg!! Yall made me a lifelong fan of living history and changed my life and how I teach!! (I will confess, when I substitute teach now, I come in period costume- just to throw off the kids & get them thinking)

I’d love to hear former customers’ ideas, friends’, family’ etc! I assume yall follow this page bc you like teaching kids history so what do you think? It’s like an Olfactory Oculus! (I’m trademarking that!! 🤣🤣)

05/23/2024

Ya but check out that freckled Mediterranean Gecko! So cute!! Also called a Turkish Gecko- this guy gets around!! We have a FREE science tour in City Park this Saturday at 9:30!! Kids 7-10 years old! Message me for details!!