School Field Trips
Calling all teachers, school administrators, childcare providers and homeschool parents…
Schedule your Primrose Farm field trip today!
Meet the animals, examine simple machines, milk a cow or try your hand at baking biscuits on the woodstove.
All programs are written in conjunction with curriculum standards, topics and teacher recommendations.
To receive the below rates, groups must bring a minimum of 15 paid participants. Depending on the program, Primrose can accommodate up to 80 participants at a time. Teachers and school aides are free and, for every 10 paid students, 1 chaperone is included for free. If groups bring extra chaperones, they are required to pay the student rate.
For more details or to schedule your program, call 630-513-4374 or email ajones@stcparks.org.
Farmyard Friends
Take a trip out to the country to meet the animal residents of Primrose Farm. This pre-K to 2 field trip features chickens, sheep, goats, horses and cows. Learn how farmers raise these animals and what we get from them. Your visit will finish with a tractor-drawn wagon ride.
90-minute program
RES $6/NR $8 per student
Hands-on History
History is more that facts and dates on a page…learn by doing! Join Primrose Farm staff for a day of discovery about children’s roles on a working dairy farm. All participants will take a turn assisting with the day’s farm chores (to be determined by farm staff). Your visit will finish with a tractor-drawn wagon ride.
2-hour program
RES $10/NR $12 per student
Day at the Dairy
This program focuses on our herd of Jersey cows. Meet the cows and watch a milking demonstration, help grind corn for feed, churn butter and go on a wagon ride. PLEASE NOTE: this program must begin by 9:45am at the latest for the comfort of the mama cow, and is only offered April through October.
2-hour program
RES $12/NR $14 per student