Fun on the Farm returns to Sanpete County Fair with new cow-themed actions | Information, Sports activities, Jobs

The widespread Fun on the Farm exhibit will return to the fairgrounds Aug. 28-29, providing youngsters a hands-on take a look at agriculture and the journey meals takes from the farm to the household desk.

Fun on the Farm is a everlasting, free exhibit on the Sanpete County Fair. The undertaking was created by Calan Olsen after a suggestion from his grandfather, Steve Frischknecht. What started as an concept has grown into an interactive agricultural expertise that has turn out to be a favourite cease for households attending the honest.

Located contained in the fairgrounds behind the swimming pool, Fun on the Farm takes youngsters by way of a collection of buildings, every centered round a unique farm animal.

The journey begins when guests placed on an apron and obtain a basket. As they make their manner by way of the exhibit, they take part in actions, find out about agriculture and gather merchandise equivalent to milk, honey, eggs, bacon, fruit and greens.

Along the best way, youngsters can strive their hand at milking a cow, holding a cockroach, branding a cow, carding wool, roping a steer and using tractors, amongst different actions.

Once they’ve gathered their farm merchandise, members take them to the market, the place they commerce them for a Fun on the Farm greenback. That greenback can then be spent on the Fun on the Farm retailer for a deal with or prize.

Red, White and MOO

This yr’s Sanpete County Fair theme is “Red, White, and MOO,” and Fun on the Farm is celebrating the theme by placing the highlight on some of the vital animals on the farm — the cow.

Several new actions and additions are deliberate for this yr’s exhibit.

The cow constructing acquired its siding final yr, and this yr black cow spots in a wide range of shapes might be added to the constructing. Children can take part in an “I Spy” exercise by choosing up a sheet on the white milk cow constructing and looking for the completely different shapes.

Story time can even be provided all through the weekend, with volunteers studying humorous cow tales to youngsters.

Story instances might be held Friday at 5 and 6 p.m. and Saturday at 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m. The readings will happen on the shelter north of the Fun on the Farm retailer.

Another new characteristic is the Fun on the Farm Kindness Rock Garden. Children and households are invited to carry painted rocks so as to add to the backyard or commerce certainly one of their rocks for one already there.

Organizers would particularly prefer to see loads of cow-themed rocks be a part of the gathering.

Reading, creativity and slightly competitors

Fun on the Farm additionally continues to encourage youngsters to be taught exterior the fairgrounds.

The Fun on the Farm Reading Challenge is offered by way of the Sanpete County Fair web site and Facebook web page, at Sanpete County libraries and within the honest journal. The program is designed for kids from kindergarten by way of fifth grade in the course of the 2025-26 college yr.

Children who full the studying problem can earn a ticket to the Thursday evening Sanpete County Fair Rodeo.

Young artists can even take part within the “Design a Cow” contest, which is open to all ages.

Participants can take the cow coloring web page and use their creativity to fill it with colours and designs. Completed creations might be displayed all through the Fun on the Farm buildings, and members will obtain a cow-themed prize.

The coloring web page is offered within the honest journal in addition to on the Sanpete County Fair’s web site, Facebook and Instagram pages.

For households in search of one other strategy to discover the honest, a Goosechase Challenge might be accessible for the primary 50 groups. The exercise will give attention to the Sanpete County Fair and Fun on the Farm, with prizes awarded to the highest two groups.

And for many who take pleasure in a scavenger hunt, there might be a mini cow hidden in every constructing.

Children who discover all the mini cows can take one dwelling once they attain the Fun on the Farm retailer.

Plan your go to

Fun on the Farm might be open Friday, Aug. 28, from 4 to 7 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 29, from 11 a.m. to five p.m.

The exhibit will shut earlier than the Saturday parade and won’t reopen afterward, so households planning to go to ought to make Fun on the Farm a part of their honest schedule early within the day.

Children in second grade and youthful have to be accompanied by an grownup.

Admission to Fun on the Farm is free.

Keeping Fun on the Farm rising

Fun on the Farm is operated by way of donations from people and companies who need to assist agricultural schooling and supply a novel expertise for kids on the Sanpete County Fair.

Bronze, Silver and Gold donor plaques are displayed on the exhibit to acknowledge those that have helped make the undertaking doable.

Donations of $100 or extra will be acknowledged on one of many donor plaques. Contributions are tax deductible, and donors are requested to point that their donation is for “Fun on the Farm.”

Donations will be mailed to:

Sanpete County Fair Fun on the Farm

c/o Stacey Carlisle

640 East 70 South

Manti, Utah 84642

Visitors can even assist assist the way forward for Fun on the Farm by buying particular merchandise, together with shirts, pins, hats, keychains, aprons, 3-D animals and earrings.

For households attending the Sanpete County Fair, Fun on the Farm gives greater than one other exercise for kids. It supplies a chance for kids to expertise agriculture in a manner they’ll see, contact and perceive.

And with this yr’s “Red, White, and MOO” theme, there needs to be loads of cows — and loads of enjoyable — ready behind the swimming pool.