Last week, my friend and I took our boys to a local farm that has built a sort of playground out of hay and corn. Her boys are twins that are Ricky’s age and we all had a fabulous time. We played and the boys ran and ran and then we had a picnic lunch (no ants but lots of wasps) before heading home. It really was a fun morning. And, Kevin’s work is sponsoring a night there this week, so the boys get to go back again!
There were slides and tunnels built into huge stacks of hay bales.
Ricky is the one in the hat on this see-saw.
They had a small maze built out of hay bales
and traditional corn mazes built into the corn field. Ricky and his friends liked the kids’ maze best. There were no actual forks in the maze, just a path through the corn and they ran around and around until they were so tired they nearly dropped. In the entrance, through the maze, out the exit, and repeat.
Billy enjoyed the maze once or twice and then he was tired of it and ready for the corn box! It was like a sandbox but filled with dried corn instead of sand. He thought it was fun to dump the corn out by the handful.
One of the other attractions Ricky really enjoyed looked like a gigantic milk jug that was turned into a play house decorated like a ghost. That isn’t a good description. It was big and white and plastic with a door cut into it as well as a few window type holes. It was painted with big black eyes and a mouth so it looked somewhat like a ghost. Ricky enjoyed looking out the windows . . .
The windows were a little too tall for Billy, but he did find one to look out . . .
There was also a duck race game that the boys had fun with. You had to pump the water pumps to pour the water into the troughs and the ducks raced along.
They also had a little train. Billy really likes trains and Ricky thought it was fun riding in a cow and then a pig!
I’m sure I will take more pictures when we go with Kevin later this week–it is just too cute of a place and the boys are too cute playing there not to!