Hands-On Arts and Crafts Demonstrations

Children learning to play marbles.

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Young visitors pose with Park Ranger after making cornhusk dolls.

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Hands-on Homesteaders’ Arts, Crafts & More

Special events and programs engage the public in homesteading folk life. Try your hand at a new craft, take your children and grandchildren back to the earliest days of settlement, or learn about the American Indian cultures that predated the Homestead Act.

 

Demonstrator demonstrates how to tan a deer hide.

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Students and visitors participate in such diverse annual activities as the Heartland Storytelling Festival (May), Homestead Days (June), and Pioneer Days (October).