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Family Christmas at Living History Farms
December 7 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$8 – $9![](https://bravogreaterdesmoines.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/15128870_10154741726554105_1328784700292531477_o.jpg)
Join us for old-fashioned holiday fun!
Saturday, December 7 • Noon-3 p.m.
$9 for ages 2 and up ($8 for members; 1 and under free)
Buildings are heated. Bundle up for wagon rides!
Hear the sounds, see the sights, and smell the smells of a 19th-century Christmas.
Listen to the jingling bells as you take a horse-drawn wagon ride.*
Chime in with the carolers at the historic Flynn Mansion.
Watch demonstrations of old-fashioned letterpress printing and the Victorian “language of the fan.”
Make an orange-clove pomander and sniff to identify spices at the Drug Store.
Take a whiff of the traditional goodies in the wood-fired oven at the Tangen Home.
Make crafts and decorate cookies to take home.
Hear stories and help us trim our tree.
And don’t forget a visit with good old St. Nick!