Yesterday was J's actual 7
th birthday, so we spent the afternoon doing something really fun -- we headed out to the
Foster Family Farm corn maze and play farm, in South Windsor, CT, with a couple other homeschooling families (that's one of the boys' homeschooling buddies being the goat in the middle of this picture, where J is a cow and Zoo Boy is a -- what else! -- pig).
There is SO MUCH to do at this place, all of it bunches of fun and great for gross motor skills! (Funny how doing Occupational Therapy with your kids makes you look at everything through sensory-integration-colored glasses!) We would have been here every week in October had I realized how wonderful it was -- next year! (They are closing for the season today.) Here the kids race around a track on pedal-powered race cars.
Farmer Zoo Boy sings a Farm Song while "driving" his tractor. Not only was there real farm
equipment to check out and climb all over, but lots of wooden and play
equipment too, and animal pens with friendly farm animals scattered along the periphery of the huge play area.
Hay ride! We've been for a record number of hay rides this year at all the various farms we've visited, and I have to tell you, we're not sick of them yet! This farm's ride goes
WAYYYYYYYY up a hill to the top of their farm where you can overlook their pumpkin fields and corn mazes and see clear to Hartford and beyond. Best hay ride yet!
And then there's the corn mazes. They have two big mazes (this year's theme was a jungle maze, and this is a picture of some of our group in the Monkey Maze), and there's maps and a
scavenger hunt in each -- you're looking for the paper punches to punch holes in the appropriate place on your map, 6 punches per maze. (Here one of the adults in our group punches the kids' cards for them at one of the stations.) The mazes each have about 2 miles of trails, so we felt pretty accomplished to find and punch all 6 spaces on our Monkey Maze map. Only J was ready to tackle the 2
nd maze, but we all over-ruled him, and the kids spent the bulk of the afternoon playing with other kids on all the great play structures and scrambling over hay bales and digging in their massive sand pit. It was the PERFECT place to spend a birthday afternoon!
Yesterday was J's actual 7th birthday, so we spent the afternoon doing something really fun -- we headed out to the Foster Family Farm corn maze and play farm, in South Windsor, CT, with a couple other homeschooling families (that's one of the boys' homeschooling buddies being the goat in the middle of this picture, where J is a cow and Zoo Boy is a -- what else! -- pig).
There is SO MUCH to do at this place, all of it bunches of fun and great for gross motor skills! (Funny how doing Occupational Therapy with your kids makes you look at everything through sensory-integration-colored glasses!) We would have been here every week in October had I realized how wonderful it was -- next year! (They are closing for the season today.) Here the kids race around a track on pedal-powered race cars.
Farmer Zoo Boy sings a Farm Song while "driving" his tractor. Not only was there real farm equipment to check out and climb all over, but lots of wooden and play equipment too, and animal pens with friendly farm animals scattered along the periphery of the huge play area.
Hay ride! We've been for a record number of hay rides this year at all the various farms we've visited, and I have to tell you, we're not sick of them yet! This farm's ride goes WAYYYYYYYY up a hill to the top of their farm where you can overlook their pumpkin fields and corn mazes and see clear to Hartford and beyond. Best hay ride yet!
And then there's the corn mazes. They have two big mazes (this year's theme was a jungle maze, and this is a picture of some of our group in the Monkey Maze), and there's maps and a scavenger hunt in each -- you're looking for the paper punches to punch holes in the appropriate place on your map, 6 punches per maze. (Here one of the adults in our group punches the kids' cards for them at one of the stations.) The mazes each have about 2 miles of trails, so we felt pretty accomplished to find and punch all 6 spaces on our Monkey Maze map. Only J was ready to tackle the 2nd maze, but we all over-ruled him, and the kids spent the bulk of the afternoon playing with other kids on all the great play structures and scrambling over hay bales and digging in their massive sand pit. It was the PERFECT place to spend a birthday afternoon!
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