It’s time to mark your calendar for 9 days of March Break fun at Ross Farm Museum!
Open Daily 9:30 until 4:30 Come enjoy the beautiful outdoors and partake in a horse-drawn wagon ride/sleigh ride, go sledding/snowshoeing, or even take a winter walk along our scenic Nature Trail. (winter activities are dependent on adequate snow conditions)
Engage your mind with our interpreters as you visit the various buildings on site that will be open during our March Break events. With daily activities to participate in, exciting new things to learn, tasty treats to enjoy, and various animals to visit; each day will have a special theme that will create lasting memories.
- Buildings are open from 9:30am to 4:30pm daily.
- Wagon Rides/Sleigh Rides will run from 10:00am to 12:00pm and again from 1:30pm to 4:30pm.
Each day has a theme, and some of the daily highlights are outlined below:
Saturday, March 9th, 2024
Tasty Treats
Workshop – Enjoy a sample of homemade ice cream
Cottage – Try your hand at taffy pulling
Various Locations Around the Museum Site – Participate in a scavenger hunt to locate items used to make tasty treats!
Sunday, March 10th, 2024
Easter Theme
School – Create an Easter ornament
Workshop – Create a small toy
Cottage – Decorate a cookie
Various Locations Around the Museum Site – Participate in an Easter themed hunt to find rabbits and match them to their favorite Easter egg!
Monday, March 11th, 2024
Nature All Around Us
School – Make a bird feeder
Cottage – Decorate a cookie
Workshop – Learn how to identify various animal scat
Various Locations Around the Museum Site – Participate in a bird watch to locate and identify felted birds!
Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
Games Day
Workshop – Make a game board
School – Decorate wooden game tokens
Cottage – Spin wool to make yarn to tie the bag that will keep your game pieces all together
Various Locations Around the Museum Site – Participate in a hunt for game pieces and match them to their game board!
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
Mill Day
Workshop – Decorate ½ of a keg stave
Cottage – Decorate a cookie
Stave & Shingle Mill – Watch as staves are made that are required to make barrels, kegs, and other casks
Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Tasty Treats
Workshop – Enjoy a sample of homemade ice cream
Cottage – Try your hand at taffy pulling
Various Locations Around the Museum Site – Participate in a scavenger hunt to locate items used to make tasty treats!
Friday, March 15th, 2024
Old Tools
Workshop – Help make a key chain holder
Cottage – Identify old household tools
Various Locations Around the Museum Site – Participate in identifying old tools within our buildings
Saturday, March 16th, 2024
Tasty Treats
Workshop – Enjoy a sample of homemade ice cream
Cottage – Satisfy your tastebuds with a tasty treat
Various Locations Around the Museum Site – Participate in a scavenger hunt to locate items used to make tasty treats!
Sunday, March 17th, 2024
St. Patrick’s Day
Workshop – Nail punch a wooden block
Cottage – Decorate a cookie
Various Locations Around the Museum Site – Participate in a scavenger hunt to find shamrocks that will eventually lead you to Leprechaun Gold!