TIME: 10:00–11:30 a.m. (Three activities)
10:00 a.m.–Noon (Five 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 frontier 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.
Programming is currently modified in response to COVID-19 safety guidelines. Please email education@fourmilepark.org with questions or to schedule a program for your learners.
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 (TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO COVID-19): A guide dressed in period clothing will lead your group on a tour of Denver’s oldest standing house. (Only for children ages seven and older and for groups with 50 or fewer people.)
Gold Panning (TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO COVID-19): Pan for gold just like the ’59ers—your students, however, are guaranteed success!
Old-Timey Games: Stilts, sack races, hoop & stick races, tug-o-war, jump rope, race wooden horses, and more. Also, learn games that taught young Native Americans life skills such as hunting and survival on the plains.
Prairie 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.
Butter Making (TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO COVID-19): Shake cream in a jar until it turns into creamy butter and then enjoy the tasty treat on a cracker.
Jack Rabbit Hit / Corn Husk Dolls: Make a Native American corn-husk toy which is similar to a badminton birdie in appearance, but played like hackie-sac. 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.
Woodstove Cooking (TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO COVID-19): Mix and bake a home-style recipe and sample it at the end of the day’s activities. For ages five and older.