‘Once Upon A Farm’ Opens + Giveaway

Being Omaha Family Dining Week, it’s timely to tell you all about the special exhibit that just opened at Omaha Children’s Museum: “Once Upon a Farm.”

Guess who grows all that good food?

This interactive exhibit tells kids how the food on the table got there, and the important role agriculture plays in their everyday lives.

Some of the cool features:

Slide behind the seat of a combine to harvest your crops

Wheel around a pedal track maze and fill up at the ethanol station

Plant and irrigate your crops in the miniature planting station

Learn about water and irrigation while playing under the kid-sized center pivot

Create your own beef dishes in the Cow Cafe

Separate and sort grain into large grain bins

Crawl through a two-story worm wall

Care for livestock

Hop aboard the Ag Express Train (must purchase tickets)

Broadcast your own forecast at the weather station

My friends and their adorable kids checked out the exhibit on preview night last Friday. All smiles.

If you go

Omaha Children’s Museum’s “Once Upon a Farm”

Where: 500 S. 20th St.

When: Through April 12, 2015; winter hours are Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (9 to 10 a.m. member-only hour); Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (open late until 8 p.m. on the first Friday of each month); Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. Mondays, CLOSED.

Admission: 2 to 59, $9; 60+, $8; FREE children 2 and younger and museum members. “Once Upon a Farm” exhibit admission  is FREE for members and children 24 months and under; $2 in addition to regular museum admission for non-members.

I’m looking forward to bringing my kids to the new exhibit, how about you? Want some FREE passes to get into the museum? Omaha Children’s Museum has provided TWO (2)  family four-pack of passes (value up to $36 four each four-pack)! There are two ways to enter.

First chance to win

Update: Congrats to Kayla M. for winning the four passes!

One e-newsletter subscriber will win simply for being a subscriber! If you aren’t a subscriber, it’s FREE and easy to subscribe and you stay up to date on all the new openings, giveaways and inside scoop on good stuff to do in Omaha. Click to subscribe now and be entered to win. A random winner will be drawn via random.org Nov. 2, 2014.

Second chance to win

Update: Congrats to Katie H. for winning the four passes!

Enter using the Rafflecopter form below. A random winner will be drawn via Rafflecopter on Nov. 2, 2014, 11:59 p.m.

Disclosure: Omaha Children’s Museum provided museum admission passes for this giveaway. All thoughts and opinions are mine.

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