LL Bean Outdoor Discovery at Historic Corron Farm

LL Bean Outdoor Dsicovery Schools sign at Historic Corron Farm with snowshoes for all ages

LL Bean conducts these classes to teach children (and by extension their interested parents), about the great outdoors. At the Winter Wonders event at Historic Corron Farm *to raise money for the Dairy Barn*, LL Bean furnished snowshoes, but it didn't end there. They also had a contraption that makes perfect snowballs (provided you have packing snow for it).  Kind of like a melon baller, only for snowballs.

Use it like a melon baller

It makes the perfect snowballs!

Perfect snowballs

They also had binoculars and a birding book, in the event someone was interested in birds. Since I've been a birder since I was a child, I appreciated their offering kids the opportunity to do that.

This is a bag that was originally made to carry ice in. It can hold up to 150 pounds of ice! It's made of the same thick stiff canvas, and can be used as a shopping bag, or a book bag, or whatever else your imagination can come up with. Still useful, just not for its original purpose because we don't have to wait for the iceman to come anymore, or go somewhere and buy ice for the icebox.

They also had hoola hoops

When I took the wagon tour, led by a botanist member of the Historic Corron Farm Preservation Society, I saw the children coming back on their snowshoes

Coming back from using those snowshoes!

Looking back at my pictures from the day, it looks like I have a lot more to talk about.