Kids & Education

Rangers and children experince the fun of forts at Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Sing A Song!
Enjoy this tune about forts from the award-winning CD Songs for the Junior Ranger.

• Castillo De Lodo

  
  

  This song was co-written by the Centennial Elementary School Cultural Music Club and Park Ranger Jeff Wolin. It is about Bent's Old Fort National Historic site.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS

  Date created:

  10/14/2020

  Audio Transcript

  On the border of Mexico there was a trading post looked like a castle, Bent's Fort was its name to make a fort so tall, they had to have strong walls made bricks from a mix they called adobe

  They had a recipe, the ingredients came to be The Castillo de Lodo, the Castle of Mud, Castillo de Lodo they mixed up the mud and added el agua, zacate, la arena, El sol y tiempo, Castillo de Lodo

  Trappers and traders, hunters and freighters servants and cooks and a blacksmith or too Mexican laborers, Native Americans cultures combined like a buffalo stew

  They were the recipe to build a community at the Castillo de Lodo, the Castle of Mud, Castillo de Lodo they mixed up the mud and added el agua, zacate, la arena, El sol y tiempo, Castillo de Lodo

  Baile Juntos Mezcla

  Castillo de Lodo, the Castle of Mud, Castillo de Lodo they mixed up the mud and added el agua, zacate, la arena, El sol y tiempo, Castillo de Lodo

  Castillo de Lodo, Castillo de Lodo, Castillo de Lodo Baile

Visiting Forts with ChildrenWant to know what it's like to visit a historic fort with your school or family? Check out this video from Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco as they walk you through a fort visit in Spanish, Mandarin, and English!

Duration:

6 minutes, 45 seconds

An introductory video about Fort Point that is open captioned, audio described and provided in English, Spanish, and Chinese.