HARVEST SERIES BARNYARD READERS

Harvest Series

Wednesdays from August 20 through September 24 at 9:30 a.m.

You and your preschooler can experience the routines of a farm in fall through stories, games, and hands-on activities. Each week focuses on a different crop or tradition.

Details

• Time: 9:30-11:00
• Please arrive 5 minutes early so program may begin on time
• Location: Meet at the Learning Center (off of Hickman)
• Dress for weather—program occurs indoors and outdoors

Registration Information

• $34 for parent and child ($30 for members)
• $12 each additional child ($10 for members)
• Each ticket is for one session
  

  PURCHASE

Calendar

Program Descriptions

Farm Tractors • August 20

Come enjoy a morning focused on the coolest farm equipment – tractors! Hear a story about a sweet little tractor and enjoy a tractor ride around the farms. Remember the day with your very own tractor to take home!

Wool • August 27

Begin our harvest series with something other than food – sheep wool! Learn about how wool we get from sheep is turned into yarn. Hear a story about spinning wool and make a yarn related craft. Then go visit the farm to see how wool is spun and help clean some wool from our sheep. 

Corn • September 3

Hear a story about the crop that has been grown in Iowa for many, many years – corn! Make a corny craft to take home and visit one of our farms to see what they would have used corn for and help with a corn related chore at the farm.

 Apples • September 10

Apples and pears; pears and apples!  From pies to juicy fruit, you can eat apples and pears in many different ways.  But do you know how an apple or a pear grows?  How do apples and pears  become pies?  Learn all about these fruits as you hear stories, make a craft, and pick your own apples or pears from the trees at the 1900 Farm.

Pumpkins & Squash: Things That Grow on Vines • September 17

All pumpkins are squash but not all squash are pumpkins!  Learn the difference between the two and how they grow.  Stories will set the stage for the craft we do.  Then we’ll visit the farm to see how these are grown, and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get to pick one to take home!

Hay • September 24

Hey, hey, hay is for more than just horses. Come hear a fun story about hay and make a craft. Afterwards visit the Horsepower farm and help with a hay related chore.