Posts Tagged ‘Autumn’
Prairie Pursuits: Beginners Drop Spindle
Drop Spindles are a portable way of spinning roving wool into yarn. Join us in constructing a simple drop spindle. Afterwards, you will learn to use it to spin thread, then take it home a practice.
Read MoreCoffee & Brunch
Are you hungry? Come out to Conner Prairie for a breakfast cooked over the open fire.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Fall Feast
Help us make a fall feast using natural materials, fall spices and lots of imagination! Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Fall Feast
Help us make a fall feast using natural materials, fall spices and lots of imagination! Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
Read MorePrairie Pursuits: All About Oxen
Join Conner Prairie’s agriculture staff to learn about the history, selection, training, and care of these magnificent draft animals.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Fall Feast
Help us make a fall feast using natural materials, fall spices and lots of imagination! Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Fall Feast
Help us make a fall feast using natural materials, fall spices and lots of imagination! Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
Read MoreVirtual Memory Café
Join us for a Memory Café – a welcoming, safe, space for individuals with Alzheimer’s or any type of Dementia, and their caregivers. Memory Café themes center around music from days past, taking a short walk to one of our historic buildings to do some 19th century hearth cooking, visiting our many farm animals, or dipping beeswax candles.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Pumpkins
Let’s explore pumpkins and learn about the pumpkin life cycle. Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Pumpkins
Let’s explore pumpkins and learn about the pumpkin life cycle. Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Pumpkins
Let’s explore pumpkins and learn about the pumpkin life cycle. Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests. Each session is designed to bring Conner Prairie to life in a developmentally appropriate way for children ages 0-5. Attendees will have the opportunity to play, explore, inquire, and learn throughout…
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Pumpkins
Let’s explore pumpkins and learn about the pumpkin life cycle. Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests. Each session is designed to bring Conner Prairie to life in a developmentally appropriate way for children ages 0-5. Attendees will have the opportunity to play, explore, inquire, and learn throughout…
Read MoreHeartland International Film Festival
Indiana’s largest and longest-running film festival will celebrate its 29th anniversary with a drive-in screening at Conner Prairie. Watch the year’s most talked about independent films from the safety and comfort of your automobile, with audio broadcast through your radio. There’ll be two screenings each night, 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm and 9:15 pm –…
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Spiders
How many legs does a spider have? Learn about spiders and why they are important to our ecosystem. Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Spiders
How many legs does a spider have? Learn about spiders and why they are important to our ecosystem. Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Evening Cookout and Benefit Auction
Join new and old friends at our Wednesday evening cookout for good food and great conversations. This is also a chance to be able to purchase items made by Conner Prairie’s crafters and workshop instructors. All proceeds go to support Conner Prairie’s educational mission.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Basic Hornwork and Decorative Techniques
Master Hornsmith Art DeCamp will show you the tricks to design, layout and execute beautiful scrimshaw work.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Advanced Leatherworking
Take your pouch making to the next level as Ken Scott teaches you advanced techniques in making hunting bags and pouches.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Folding Knife
Bladesmith Brian Barker teaches how to create a historically appropriate knife.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Basic Blacksmithing
Join Nathan Allen as you learn the basics of blacksmithing including drawing, punching, hardening, tempering steel and forge welding.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Knifesmithing
Under the guidance of Dwight Gallian, you’ll learn about the history and creation of a traditional hand-forged knife.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Basic Leatherworking
Join Ken Scott as he teaches you his unique style of making hunting bags and pouches.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Axe Forging
Explore traditional forging techniques with blacksmith Nathan Allen.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Leather Accoutrements
Learn a variety of basic leather-working skills with noted leather-worker Ken Scott.
Read MorePrairie Pursuits: Bookbinding
Let us show you how to bind a notebook using a Coptic style. By the end of the class you will have a notebook to write all your spooky October stories.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Hearth Cooking
Learn to prepare a traditional meal over an open fire.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Advanced Hornworking – Screw Tip Powder Horn
Work alongside master hornsmith Art DeCamp to make a screw tip horn.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Forging Damascus Steel
Blacksmith Nathan Allen will teach the fundamentals of making pattern welded steel from proper steel selection to basic pattern development.
Read MoreArts & Arms: Engraving – CANCELED
Master engraver and author of Engraving Historic Firearms, John Schippers, teaches you the art of metal engraving.
Read MorePlaytime on the Prairie: Spiders
How many legs does a spider have? Learn about spiders and why they are important to our ecosystem. Playtime on the Prairie is an early childhood experience tailored for our youngest guests.
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