Today we went the Kauffman Museum here in Newton for the Annual Kansas Day Celebration. It was full of fun things to do like shucking corn with hand shucker, rolling hoops (like school boys did back in the pioneer days), making butter, making tortillas, listening to an Indian Storyteller, seeing a real tee pee (and being able to go in it), watching a black smith, a wood worker, logs being made ready to build log cabins (the way they would have done it in the pioneer days), wood cutting , popcorn being made over an open fire in a caldern, wagon rides and so much more including a lot of hands on activity. We wanted to make a broom but they ran out of the materials before we got through the line. We had fun learning about so much Kansas stuff. It has been a little over a week of learning about Kansas. I still feel like we have so much more to learn. It was a very well put together event.
A Blacksmith making a spoon from a railroad tie
Edward Decorating a Swedish Dala Horse 