School Field Trips

Elementary Schools, Preschools and Daycares

Busy Barns Adventure Farm tours offer a hands-on environment where children play and learn in an outdoor classroom. Children will receive lots of exercise interacting with the unique agricultural activities spread across the farm. Everyone receives animal feed, a make-n-take activity in the spring and a free kid-sized pumpkin in the fall, along with many great memories!

Our Programs:
Our field trips are self-guided allowing you to decide where, when and how long you spend at each of the over 20 farm activities. The only scheduled tour components for preschools and daycares is the hayride and walking to the pumpkin patch 15 minutes before your planned departure.

The K-4th grade tours will also walk to the pumpkin patch before departure, have a scheduled hayride, plus receive a 30-minute structured educational program that is tied to our 2011 fall curriculum, "Swine are Divine". This 'Swine Time' lesson is taught in the Little Barn by a certified teacher. Our tours are designed to meet the state of Wisconsin educational standards.

Field Trip Components

• Farm Exploration
  Visit the farm activity area including the straw mow play area, bunny tunnel, antique tractors, obstacle course, hamster wheel racers, 20-foot slides, pony swings, corn box, tractor tire trail, western area and much more…
• Play Barn
  Hands-on learning including a hand hole discovery box, simulated milk cow “Holly the Holstein”, play in tubs of wheat, farm scale, bolt table, rocking farm animals and educational posters.
• Animal Acres
  Visit, touch and feed the farm animals.
• Hayride (10 to 15 minutes)
  Take a tractor drawn hayride around the farm property.
  (dependent on weather and field conditions)
• Scavenger Hunt (spring)/Trivia Corn Maze (fall)
  (10 to 20 minutes)
  Rhyming educational scavenger hunt around the farm.
  4-acre maze with true/false and multiple choice questions.
  (corn maze questions are on page 48 & 49 in curriculum guide)
  
• Make-n-Take (spring)/Pumpkin Patch (fall)
  (5 to 10 minutes)
  Hands-on spring educational activity to take home.
  Take a walk to our patch and select your perfect pumpkin.
  

K-Fourth Grade Tour

• All of the above, PLUS a 30-minute educational lesson called 'Swine Time'. This fall a certified on-farm educator will teach lesson #3 (page 40) from our farm's 2011 Fall Curriculum Guide, "Swine are Divine". The students will learn the differences between a production and pet pig, they will view a sow in a farrowing crate and baby piglets, learn about the many food products and by-product from swine, hear the different pig sounds and learn what they mean, see what pigs eat and learn how fast they grow, and more.

Take Home: Every child will receive…

• Free make-n-take (spring) or kid-sized pumpkin from our patch (fall)
• Free animal feed to use during the field trip
• Free agriculture education booklet
• Lots of great memories and learning opportunities!

Click here for dates, times, length, price and detailed information about your spring or fall field trip.