The FWIC owned and operated museum Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead National Historic Site hosted over 1600 kids and family members from our community on Good Friday! We all had a blast! Happy Easter to all families from FWIC.
Images copyright Sara Naim and Maggie Wilson
Under the welcoming facade of the Homestead. The line up wrapped along the side of the road for as far as the eye could see.
The Balloon man was VERY popular. He and his partner were busy the entire time, even after closing time!
This young gal was crowned “Addie” for the day.
Addie’s pal.
Farmer Dave also had chicks and these baby ducks for the petting zoo.
Aaah, the Easter Bunny!
Fun and Games
Another very popular activity was the Optimist build your own cookie booth.
Here’s a masterpiece in progress.
Voilà ! Looks too good to eat!
Apparently, the cookies WERE good enough to eat!
The raffle and silent auction table. We are VERY grateful for the generous support of friends local merchants who provided items for this event.
Meanwhile, back at the face painting station
Lots more fun to be had.
Pretty posies at one of our vendors.
Pretty prize packages – to be claimed when the children collected their eggs.
All is ready!
The sun poked through the foggy skies for this heat of the Easter Egg Hunt. Under the watchful gaze of the Homestead, again.
Happy Easter, dear Maggie. Kudos on a smashing turnout – the homestead, the pets, the children, the make-your-own cookies, …. Such simple charme is what makes memories that last.
Thanks, Sammy. I will pass along your comments to the organizers. All I had to do was show up and “man” the booth. There was a TON of work performed ahead of this event. The organizers and the volunteers did an amazing job. Even Mother Nature behaved. It was damp and grey for most of the day, but it could have been a whole lot worse, given our long and cold winter.
All wonderful views of what sounds like a marvelous party! I’m especially enamored of this particular Easter bunny, who in a perfectly Easter-like way resembles very closely the late miss Basil bunny, my nephew’s sweet, beloved pet of many years who just died a couple of weeks ago. So lovely that she apparently rose again for a quick Easter appearance in your part of the world. 😉
xo,
Kathryn
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Wow! You had an amazing turnout! Congratulations 🙂
If I had known you were going to have a cookie making booth …. 😉
There’s always next year! The event is gaining popularity. ☺
Happy Easter, dear Maggie. Kudos on a smashing turnout – the homestead, the pets, the children, the make-your-own cookies, …. Such simple charme is what makes memories that last.
Thanks, Sammy. I will pass along your comments to the organizers. All I had to do was show up and “man” the booth. There was a TON of work performed ahead of this event. The organizers and the volunteers did an amazing job. Even Mother Nature behaved. It was damp and grey for most of the day, but it could have been a whole lot worse, given our long and cold winter.
All wonderful views of what sounds like a marvelous party! I’m especially enamored of this particular Easter bunny, who in a perfectly Easter-like way resembles very closely the late miss Basil bunny, my nephew’s sweet, beloved pet of many years who just died a couple of weeks ago. So lovely that she apparently rose again for a quick Easter appearance in your part of the world. 😉
xo,
Kathryn
I love that the bunny, who is keeping one keen eye on the camera, reached you! <3
Looks like more fun than a barrel of monkeys … Keep on blogging in a free world – The False Prophet
The kids had a riot.
I can understand, I would have, too, what with all those balloons and other activities.