Farm Life, 1900s Style. Where work becomes play.
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 09:00AM Never in my life did I think I would hear the Twofer say, Can we do the laundry first? We want to go straight to the laundry!"
I have begged, bribed and cajoled them into helping me simply fold laundry. But wash it? Puhlease!
And yet this weekend we took the girls to a Harvest Festival on a 1900s farm that had stations set up so kids could get to see how hard children their age had to work.
They did laundry using washboards.
Had a school lesson using slate and chalk.
Made hand-dipped candles.
Dug for potatoes.
And churned butter.
Unfortunately, the "hard work" and "see-how-lucky-you-are?" lesson was lost on them as they were having too much fun doing laundry, writing on slate with chalk, dipping candles, digging for potatoes, and churning butter. {sigh}
Here's the Whrrl story:
The truth? We had fun too :).
Janine
Reader Comments (1)
we love places like that...the kids always have a ball...but its true...its more of a cool game than life lesson