TIME: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (Three (3) activities)
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Five (5) activities)
Tel: 720-865-0814
Email: education@fourmilepark.org
Choose your own adventure! With this field trip, you can pick 3-5 activities for a custom prairie experience. One-room schoolhouse lessons, daily farm chores, cooking over an open fire, panning for gold, making butter…and more! Click to view our pricing guide.
Pick three to five activities from the list below, pricing starts at $7 or $3.50 (non SCFD + Larkspur and Castle Rock $7.50 and $4) Title 1 and county discounts available, contact Four Mile Education for more details.
Celebrations: Celebrate a happy occasion pioneer-style. Enjoy the rhythm and fun of pioneer-era music and dance.
Farm Chores: Wash laundry on a scrub board, sweep the boardwalks, beat the rugs, and feed the chickens.
Footprints on the Trail: Create tracings of the animal tracks pioneers might have encountered on their trek west. See and feel some animal hides that correspond to the footprints.
Four Mile House Tour: A guide dressed in period clothing will lead your group on a tour of Denver’s oldest standing house. (Small groups recommended due to size of the rooms, tour recommended for ages six and up)
Gold Panning: Pan for gold just like the ’59ers—your students, however, are guaranteed success!
Prairie Games: Stilts, sack races, hoop & stick races, tug-o-war, jump rope, race wooden horses, and more.
One Room School: Learn what it was like to be a student in a country school long ago. Your group leader will become a schoolmarm or master and can really play-up the strictness characterized by this time period.
Quilt Craft: Use small squares of precut cloth to make a design from the colors and patterns of the fabric. For ages seven and younger.
Tipi Exploration: Learn about some of the Plains Native American cultures by using their sign language and playing games in a tipi.
Activities with Additional Costs:
Extra .50 per student:
Butter Making: Shake cream in a jar until it turns into creamy butter and then enjoy the tasty treat on a cracker. (gluten free and dairy free options coming soon!)
Jack Rabbit Hit or Corn Husk Dolls: Make a Native American corn-husk toy which is similar to a badminton birdie in appearance, but played like hackie-sac. Or make your own corn husk person! For ages seven and older.
Pollinate Your Mind: Learn all about bees, from pollinating to harvesting; from historic and modern beekeeping practices to why bees are so important. Students will also enjoy a honey stick.
Extra $1.00 per student:
Woodstove Cooking: Mix and bake a home-style recipe and sample it at the end of the day’s activities. For ages five and older.
Setting Up Camp: Your students will do the measuring and mixing of ingredients of a real trail recipe and you will “cook it up” over an open fire. When the food is ready, everyone gets to try a piece.