Field Trips

My kids love to watch the show “How It’s Made” on the Discovery Channel and so looking around for a factory tour to take this summer sounded like a great idea. Except you have to check carefully into the factory tour that you sign up for- some of them are more “show” than tour! Earlier [...]

Taking your family on a nice hike and visiting a waterfall along the way is a fantastic field trip to take during the summer! Waterfalls of almost any size are quite awe-inspiring…  and not only for the kids! Last week we ventured a few hours north of our home to hike and swim at Minnewaska [...]

When planning your summer camp at home field trips, it can be fun to look beyond the typical educational and historical attractions and seek out some of the more “quirky” places that kids love. I learned about one such “quirky” attraction while leafing through one of those glossy brochures published by a state’s Department of [...]

For us it just wouldn’t be a real summer camp at home if we didn’t plan at least one trip to the zoo and one trip to the aquarium every summer! My children have been animal-lovers since they day they joined our family, and they never get tired of seeing their favorite creatures and reading [...]