Step back in time over 100 years and watch history come to life at Spring Valley's largest and most popular event! Hands-on demonstrations of frontier-era and 1880s farm life such as cider pressing, blacksmithing, grain threshing, primitive fire starting, and much more is available to see and do. Throughout the day there will be kid's craft activities, 19th century games, live string music, grilled food and taffy apples. Parking is available at the Nature Center on Schaumburg Road, and off Plum Grove Road across from the Heritage Farm.

Are you planning to audition for any plays in our 2010-2011 season? Do you want to know more about the audition process? Come to this friendly and free workshop that will help you choose a monologue and develop the confidence needed to have a really great audition.

Make your own puppet and put on a show to celebrate this traditional form of Chinese theater.

Ever wonder about how children live half way around the world? You can write a letter to another child in China, put it in our museum “mailbox” and we’ll send it there.

Wear a costume and get $1 off regular admission.

Experience a variety of stories and legends from the rich American Indian oral tradition.

What can you make with your own loom at your finger-tips? American Indians used fingerweaving to pull together multiple smaller strings into one sturdier piece. Try your hand at this ancient art.

Create a center seam puckered moccasin, similar to those worn by tribes around the great lakes, using modern material.

Learn some basic Woodland Indian beadwork techniques. Take home your very own bead creation.

Listen to and read Spanish language children’s books.