Knowing we'd be going to a farm for Theo's field trip, we haven't really hit up as many local farms this fall as we might have otherwise. We were all excited to join Theo's school for a morning on the farm.
Cows 'n Corn is located a county over in Midland, VA. The farm is open to the public with a large corn maze, ice cream, and lots of play equipment for the kids. For our field trip, they split us into groups and rotated us through four stations.
First, we got to go on a hay ride. Theo was pretty funny correcting a kid who was holding a piece of straw and calling it hay. He apparently learned this difference between all the farm and fair visits to Indiana.
Their Holsteins are a bit spoiled-they have an automatic back scratcher (yellow), that was something I've never saw before.
Next they got to go learn a bit more about a heifer, and pet her, as well as some other farm animals.
The third station was a butter-making demonstration. The kids all got their chance to shake the cream until it turned to butter, and got a taste. Theo was the first in line to claim his cracker.
And the fourth was pumpkin class, which included a story reading by a calf puppet. Theo has been really into our hand puppets lately, so this was perfect for him.
Lastly, there was plenty of equipment to play on throughout the farm, including a rope spider web, crawling tubes, wooden trains, and a huge stack of hay bales. And, of course, all the kids got a little bit of ice cream.
Elmo especially enjoyed the field trip (he is going everywhere with us lately).
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