A new event next weekend at the Please Touch Museum aims to highlight the charms of life on the farm.
The children’s museum will host its first Farm Day on Saturday, Nov. 9. The event, sponsored by the American Dairy Association North East, will include kid-friendly agriculture-themed activities, story times and crafts, as well as the opportunity to meet a baby cow.
Throughout the day, families can partake in farm-themed art projects. They can build and decorate miniature farms out of cardboard, paint barnyard scenes and make a mini hay bale “kicker” — a device which helps farmers load bales of hay into their trucks. Kids can also plant their own seeds and explore a sensory bin full of farm-themed objects with varying textures…