Growing up with my kids: Another afternoon at Ardenwood Historic farm

Our last visit (it happened to be our first visit too!) to Ardenwood Historic farm had filled my kids with a love for this place. The simple layout of the farm, the animals and the activities all contributed to it. When I gave my kids few options for places to visit over the weekend, they unanimously voted for Ardewood farm.

So here we were back at the farm and this time th kids enjoyed :

Bountiful bubbles: On a hot and breezy day it is fun to blow big bubbles with unusual bubble wands. These were made with 2 sticks on each side and a flat rope loop. There were simple metal wands for younger kids.

Vanilla Icecream: If you were born in olden days you would have to make your own icecream before eating it! The kids made vanilla icecream with an icecream maker from olden times, the cranking one. After mixing the ingredients in a vertical container, ice and salt(to lower the freezing point of the ice and make it more cold) were added around the container and kids had to turn the crank, so the mixture inside gets equally exposed to the lower temperature outside.

The kids then got to eat their icecream!

Old fashioned games: Kids were provided with things that they needed to play the old fashioned games such as walking on the stilts, potato sack race, balancing potato on spoon. They had fun trying out all of them.