Megan's 3rd grade class had their "Pioneer Day" back on May 26th. We had a warm (85 degrees) day but no thunderstorms at least. The kids had a great time, they are so fortunate to get to pretend to be pioneers it's so much more fun than just reading about it.

Grandma Barb had made the costume for Paige three years ago and it looks just as cute on Megan as it did on Paige. They are lucky girls to have such a talented Grandma.

Megan and her teacher Mrs. H.

I worked at the biscuit making station in the morning and then after lunch I was at stenciling. The kids made their own butter before heading to mix the ingredients, roll out the dough and cut their biscuits. The best part was eating them hot out of the oven!

Megan cleaning the rugs the way they did it before Dyson came along. The moms would sprinkle baby powder on the rugs before they let the kids beat them...smelled like a fresh clean diaper at the chores station!

They square danced!

They did some tin punching with a nail and a aluminum pie plate.

They dipped candles.

They made butter...a little heavy cream, a pinch of salt and a marble in a plastic lidded cup and a lot of shaking makes good butter.

I wonder if the buckets were that small in pioneer days? I doubt it!

They had a good lunch...chicken legs, noodles, corn, fresh veggies, fresh fruit and Megan's favorite pickle spears. After lunch you could pick either a brownie or cookie for desert. "Either" was a hard concept for some of the kids. Megan went with the brownie and deemed it two thumbs up!

Squint your eyes a little and remember back 30 years and you might see a glimpse of Laura Ingles a.k.a. Melisa Gilbert.

They stenciled designs on cotton bags. Some got the concept of a little paint goes a long ways and some just globbed it on. I was helping with the stenciling station the last part of the day.

They helped make rope.