Last month we went on our 2nd field trip with our homeschool group. This was was in Thomasville, Georgia (about 45 minutes North of us). It was at the Bread Wagon, which is a bakery run by Mennonites. It was sooooo much fun! The boys loved it, and I can't believe how much the lady did with us. She does this on one of the days that the store is closed, so that we have the place to ourselves. It was really nice. There was even fresh water and lemonade that you could help yourself to.
Here are the boys before heading inside.
We started in the main room where there was a table set up for her to show us all different types of seeds. Then the kids had a chance to try and peel, pick, or feel the different items she brought in. It was very hands on.
Here's Drew picking seeds out of cotton.
Then we headed to the back room to begin our "projects". Here are the boys at their work bench.
They first started off by making dough.
Then they were preparing their dough to make their baked goods. Knox is being held up by one of the other moms I didn't even know. I had gone to get water and when I came back she was helping Knox. Everyone was sooo nice!
This is Knox with his cinnamon roll.
Here's Drew with his pretzel.
After your form your baked goods you put them in this machine so that they can rise before baking.
After all of this she had an 8" cake for every child to decorate. She let each of them have a bowl of icing and choose the color they wanted to use to mix up their icing. Of course Drew chose blue, but then everyone started sharing so they got to add more colors.
Knox's cake
It really was a great day. We were there for several hours. Before heading home I bought some fresh bread, apple butter, and chocolate pretzels. It was all delicious! And now that I have a van it's great because the boys were able to watch a show on the way home and didn't fall asleep, so we all got a good nap when we got home. :)
We started in the main room where there was a table set up for her to show us all different types of seeds. Then the kids had a chance to try and peel, pick, or feel the different items she brought in. It was very hands on.
Here's Drew picking seeds out of cotton.
Then we headed to the back room to begin our "projects". Here are the boys at their work bench.
They first started off by making dough.
Then they were preparing their dough to make their baked goods. Knox is being held up by one of the other moms I didn't even know. I had gone to get water and when I came back she was helping Knox. Everyone was sooo nice!
This is Knox with his cinnamon roll.
Here's Drew with his pretzel.
After your form your baked goods you put them in this machine so that they can rise before baking.
After all of this she had an 8" cake for every child to decorate. She let each of them have a bowl of icing and choose the color they wanted to use to mix up their icing. Of course Drew chose blue, but then everyone started sharing so they got to add more colors.
Knox's cake
It really was a great day. We were there for several hours. Before heading home I bought some fresh bread, apple butter, and chocolate pretzels. It was all delicious! And now that I have a van it's great because the boys were able to watch a show on the way home and didn't fall asleep, so we all got a good nap when we got home. :)
2 comments:
I just cant get enough of Knoxy's scrunched-up smile! :) What precious boys!
Wow...I wish blogs had smell, I bet it smelled so yummy there! What a neat place and unique field trip!
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