Fisher's AgriPark Fall Festival

This is a continuation of a fall travel series.  If you missed any of my previous posts you can find them here:  Bird Watching at the La Crosse Marsh, A Return to Galena Illinois, A Visit to the Lincoln Home, A Visit to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, and The Lincoln Tomb and Historic Springfield, and Turkey Run State Park.

The day after hiking in Turkey Run State Park we went to a fall festival at Fisher's Agripark.  Fisher's Agripark is a 33 acre urban farm located in Fishers Indiana.  The park pays homage to Fisher's agricultural  roots and provides inspiration to future farmers and homesteaders.  The park has public fields and gardens, livestock,  a playground, nature trail, nursery, and more!

The park holds a variety of activities from May through October, one of which is their Fall Festival which we attended!

The festival had so much to do we couldn't even do it all in four hours!  Here is a list of everything they had going on at the farm:

• Movie in the barn (“Home on the Range”)
• DIY veggie stamp tote bag
• Mini pumpkin painting
• Wood pumpkin craft
• S’mores & fire puts
• Putt putt golf
• Face painting
• Photo booth
• Super slide
• Inflatables
• Animal encounter
• Nature trail and playground
• Food, snack, and drink vendors

Because we had young ones, we spent a lot of time playing in the inflatables.  

They had a corn maze inflatable, which I thought was kinda cooky coming from Wisconsin where we have 'real' corn mazes, but the little ones seemed to enjoy it.

They had an inflatable farm, which seemed to be Elisha's favorite.

And they had an inflatable barn to jump in with a slide attached!

They also had a real tall, fast slide!

After playing in the inflatables, the kids were hungry so we headed for the food trucks.  We enjoyed smash burgers, walking tacos, hot dogs, and hot pretzels.  With full tummies, I thought it was best to let the stomachs settle before playing again, so the kids all got their faces painted!

Atticus and Elisha chose different Spider Men variations and Alethea chose a unicorn colored kitty.

I was so impressed with the ladies doing the face painting.  They were so good at it, and they were great with the kids!

Grandpa and Ashley took turns holding baby Lazarus,  I was the photographer that night, so I'm not in any pictures unless I handed my phone to someone and said "Here, take my picture!"  I do that at least once so when we're looking through family photos someday no one thinks I'm dead cause I'm not in any of the pictures. 😀

I don't know what's going on in the photo below.  I think Elisha is using his bargaining powers on Grandpa Todd.  He has learned when he doesn't get what he wants from one authority figure, to just go try another.  I have no idea where he learned this from, and why he even attempts it, because it does not work!  Trust me, we're on to him! 😂

Once everyone's face was painted, we headed over to the farm animals.  The children were given feed to give to the animals.

We decided to take the short nature trail back to the play activities.  The trail went through the woods where some small fall arrangements of pumpkins and hay stacks were displayed.

It was finally time to roast some marshmallows and make s'mores.  Atticus had been asking to do this all night and we kept saying "later", "later".  Well, "later" finally came and he one happy boy!

After s'mores time it was time for me to get in a fall photo so I grabbed Elisha and had Grandpa take our picture.

The grandkids really enjoyed playing on the playground and on the giant haystack.

And I thought I should include a photo of this little guy, baby Lazarus, since you couldn't see him much in mommy's Snuggie.

I hope you enjoyed our fall activity and photos, even if it's a little late as it is now the Christmas season.

 Next week I will finish up with this series and then I will be taking a two week holiday break.  I will come back after the New Year with a new travel series on Yellowstone National Park and more!

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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