Riley's Farm: Life in the Colonial Times!

 We rode on our time machine school bus, and when we arrived, we were back in the Colonial Times of our country. 

We were greeted by our hosts, and found out that we were in the Colony of Kent, while the other group was in the Colony of Smithfield. 

Our first stop was the quill and ink station. We all thought it was very cool, but soon realized that we do appreciate our pens and pencils! It was harder than we expected. 

The next station was all about proper manners and etiquette in the 18th century, thanks to George Washington's book, Rules for Civility and Decent Behavior. 

Charlee and Adedamola did a great job showing us how to bow and curtsy properly as a gentleman and a lady. 

Grant and Kora helped demonstrate how to ask a lady to dance in the most polite way. Thank you both for being such good sports about this! 

Then, we got to dip candles in the wax to create our own candles! We were bummed that we only got to dip once or twice because we ran out of time, but it was still fun to experience. 

As we were using the loom to weave yarn (made of sheep's wool), we became very thankful for machinery that can do all this now, and also for just being able to buy a blanket at the store! 

We LOVED feeding the animals!! The piggies did not smell very good, but I thought they were still cute!

Our final station was SO much fun...we got to play with toys made of wood, like the hoop and stick where you roll the hoop using a stick. 

I'm telling you, the kids had an absolute BLAST playing with these 18th century toys and games. See, they don't need electronic devices to have fun! They were completely entertained and content running around outside with these toys. 

At noon, we got to sit down for our picnic lunch. It was so delicious! We were so hungry! 

Thank you so much to our wonderful chaperones for doing an awesome job today! 

I just have to show off the dessert that Mrs. A got for me today at the Riley's Farm Bakery: Apple Dumpling with Caramel Sauce. 

I warmed it up and put a bunch of whipped cream on it. 

OH. MY. WORD.