Learn how to make chocolate the old fashioned way by processing cocoa beans at the "18th Century Chocolate Workshop" at Pottsgrove Manor. Or return to the days of dress-up with "Wake Up in the 17th Century" at Pennsbury Manor. Dress the whole family in period clothing and complete your chores to keep the estate running, with tools and technology of the period. Experience Laerenswaert, a hands-on colonial craft fair for the entire family with period craft demonstrations, house tours by costumed guides, a military reenactment, and open-hearth cooking at Peter Wentz Farmstead.
Take a "Thrill of the Night Walk" at the Mill Grove Audubon Wildlife Center, or look for fossils and dinosaur tracks at the "Schuylkill Canal Fossil Find & Locktender’s Open House." Or head for the "Saturday Morning Kids Corner" at the Valley Forge National Historical Park any Saturday from November through March, for an exciting nature walk, storytelling, and hands-on adventures that change each week.
Embrace autumn’s delights with apple-picking, scarecrow-making, pumpkin-picking and painting, bobbing for apples and more at fall festivals throughout the area. Do-it-yourself this year, at the "Mask Making for Halloween: Lions, Tigers, Bears" event at the James A. Michener Art Museum. Show off the results at Sesame Place’s "Count’s Halloween Spooktacular," or at the Radnor Hotel for "Children’s Saturday Howl-I-day Tea."
Build a camera and develop your own photographs, or learn to make your own comic strip in workshops at the James A. Michener Art Museum. Learn techniques from woodworking masters at "Woodworks" at the Fort Washington Expo Center. Kids can enjoy using old fashioned, special tools safe for play and make something to take home, at the "Antique Tool Discover Day" at the Mercer Museum.
Create a secret picture language to represent your family on a tile as you learn about family crests and artwork throughout the ages at the Abington Art Center; or fashion your own plates, platters and cups out of clay in one of artist Khara Flint’s lessons at the Mercer Museum.
Complete information on these events, and more, is available at www.valleyforge.org; or in the free Valley Forge Visitors Guide, available by calling 1-888-VISIT VF.
Calendar of Events
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Page 3 - Thrilling Adventures
Page 4 - Interacting with All of Nature and Fall Foliage
Page 5 - Politics and Some Good Old Fashion Kicks