Colonial Day

Today we had our Colonial Day at school. The kids did activities at 10 different centers. This is Todd pressing cider. I've chosen several pictures of people from our family. I will add a few more on the next blog, as I haven't figured out how to add more than 5 at once.

Todd with some of his colonial friends.
Four generations of apple butter making. Grandpa Til, Kurt, Micah, and Todd.
Esther and Don helped all day as well.

It was rather wet and rainy, but they were troopers. We were so good to pick the only day it has rained between many sunny days. The kids were excited to walk over our quickly built "bridges" to get over the huge puddles. All our activities were in the big MCC tent except the apple butter making.
Todd is just beginning his candle dipping.

The kids also made butter, played colonial games, learned about manners, learned to sew, made paper (Katie ran this center), fruit painting, shelling popcorn, traded beads, and made hand formed marbles. It was a great day. We were just thankful it wasn't snowing!