These activities are free and are limited to Living History Farms members. For questions, please mail members@LHF.org. Not a member yet? Join today!
For ages 6 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Space is limited. Priority goes to first members to arrive at scheduled activity time. Be sure you’re wearing your gold Member admission sticker.
Stick around after the public event and decorate your own “Easter bonnet” at the Visitor Center. Make it as fancy or as silly as you’d like. Special guest: The Easter Bunny!
Join us for a marvelously messy competition to see who can gobble down a slice of pie the fastest—no hands! Kid and adult categories. Location to be announced.
Take a place of honor in the horse-drawn wagon for the procession from the Gazebo to the Baseball Field. Meet at the Gazebo to board the wagon. (Weather permitting.)
Get here a half-hour early for Family Christmas, and we’ll send you on a horse-drawn wagon ride around Walnut Hill with St. Nick himself! (Weather permitting.)
For ages 6 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Space is limited. First come, first served. Ask for your Member Mornings ticket when you check in at the Admissions desk.
Stock our store shelves with cans and bottles. Then go on a scavenger hunt to help our clerks find products to fill imaginary customer orders.
Explore garden herbs while you help weed and plant the garden at the 1850 Pioneer Farm. Make sure you’re on the first tractor cart to the farm sites.
Help our printer ink the job press to prepare for printing a patriotic handout for guests in celebration of Flag Day.
Help the staff at the 1900 Horse-Powered Farm feed chickens and hunt for fresh eggs. Make sure you’re on the first tractor cart, and ask to be dropped at the 1900 Farm.
Help with an old-fashioned laundry day: Scrub clothes on a washboard, then hang them out to dry on the line.
Experience an 1876-style lesson at the one-room Schoolhouse. Write on a slate and do drills at the blackboard.
Stack the woodpile, gather kindling, and learn how a pioneer family lit a fire for their smokehouse. Make sure you’re on the first tractor cart to the farm sites.