Birthday Parties Join us for an exciting and entertaining celebration

New Pond Farm
Connecting People to the Land that Enriches and Sustains Us All

Birthday Parties

Join us for an exciting and entertaining celebration! Our talented staff offers many educational alternatives for birthday programs. All of them are very hands-on and will delight your children. Parties are available for children turning 4 and up.

Please note that due to the popularity of the Birthday Parties, we can only offer them to members of New Pond Farm. All parties, unless extended by request, will last for one hour. Then you are invited to use the classroom in our Indoor Learning Center or our picnic tables for a half hour after your program for your cake and ice cream. Please note additional fees for additional activities as stated listed separately with party description.

Birthday parties can be scheduled after school during the week and on Sunday afternoons. Cost is $10 per child with a $100 minimum and a maximum of twenty children.

Party Tips! From our experience, we've found that if you divide the party into the following segments, you will have the best success.

30 minutes prior to the program for family members to set-up
30 minutes after the program for party and cake
15 minutes for clean-up
Remember, we do not allow the use of balloons and outside entertainers are not permitted

Here are a few of our selections. For more information please call 938-2117.

Farmer for an Afternoon

Participants will get a chance to meet all the animals at New Pond Farm and learn a bit about each one. Your farmers will do a round of (light) chores. They will brush down one of our our cows and see where milk comes from. They will examine the teeth from a cow and learn just how they are able to chew and digest hay. They will toss hay into the feeder for our cows and learn why each of these animals was important to a farmer. The children will see fresh eggs in the coop and feed our flock of chickens. They will visit with and feed our sheep. This hour of fun is guaranteed to make all of the children wish that they indeed could live on a farm.
If you would like to add on to this program, we can make bees wax candles with the children. There will be an extra charge of $1.50 per person for materials and time.

Eastern Woodland Indians

Learn what it was like to be a part of an Eastern Woodland family before the first explorers reached our land. Walk in the woodlands and find a plant that will stop nose bleeds or calm tooth aches, find an American Indian toothbrush or a furry leaf used to line moccasins. Visit our museum and hold 5,000 year old spear points, 2,000 year old arrowheads, a child's bow and arrow, a skull cracker, a fishing hook made from a bone and so much more! Discover an authentically recreated encampment with a thatched longhouse and a barked wigwam. Grind Indian corn with a mortar and pestle and then sit around the fire pit and dine on freshly-baked cornbread with maple syrup on top.
If you would like to add onto this program, we can tell legends, play Native American games or make dream catchers, clay pots or arrowheads. There will be an extra charge of $1.50 per person for materials and time.

Making Maple Syrup

This is a terrific topic for those late February, early March birthdays. Come on out and tap a sugar maple tree, collect the sap and bring it down to our evaporator and learn about the process of "sugaring off." You will also travel to a sugarbush on the farm and learn how our local Native Americans made their syrup and then enjoy a traditional treat of fresh cornbread with syrup on top.

Animal Extravaganza

A great topic for animal lovers of all ages. In the comfort of our new classroom building, meet a wide variety of live and mounted mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and insects and learn about the important roles that they play within their different habitats. Our live corn snake, turtles, frogs and more will delight the children and help them to see the importance of wildlife conservation. Afterwards, if time permits, we can tour the barnyard and meet our menagerie of cows, draft horse, sheep and chickens. This is also used for a rainy day alternative.

Marsh Explorations

It's hard to think of a more exciting way of spending time than exploring a fresh water marsh. Your young naturalists will discover dragonfly nymphs, tadpoles, salamanders, water boatmen and diving beetles. They will be totally captivated by the plants and animals of the marsh and their adaptations for survival. They will go home knowing why this muddy habitat is one of the most important on our 102-acre farm. Best from May to August.