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Kids are adorned with work aprons and become State Fair Farm Hands. They grab a harvesting basket and get their first set of instructions: To the Farm!
The animals need to be fed, so their food is collected from the Grain Bin. Farm Hands pick up corn to feed their farm animals.
A farm is not complete without straw bales. Farm Hands hop on tractors and haul bales to the straw stack.
Farm Hands take a few kernels of corn to feed the chickens and gather eggs to sell at the Farmers Market.
Armed with garden gloves and trowels, Farm Hands plant vegetable seeds in one part of the garden, then harvest ripe veggies from another to sell at the Farmers Market.
Farm Hands learn the difference between cotton and wool textures at the Sheep Barn. They collect wool from a sheared sheep to sell at the Farmers Market.
Farm Hands take turns on a milking stool, collecting milk from the State Fair Holstein, then collect milk cartons to sell at the Farmers Market.
Farm Hands pick apples from the orchard and sell them at the Farmers Market.
With full baskets, Farm Hands take their goods and sell them at the Farmers Market. After they are paid with play money for their farm products, it's time to hang up the aprons and go shopping.
Retired Farm Hands buy an item that is related to the farm with their play money. They may buy apples, cereal or potato chips -- just a few of the items for sale.