Field Trips

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Classroom in the Barn

Our Classroom in the Barn was at one time a dairy barn. The barn features haybale seats and is where we’ll spend some time talking about the farm. Children receive educational instruction about how pumpkins grow, how corn grows, how bees are important to farmers and the environment.

Rope Maze

Our Rope Maze is a permanent maze appropriate for younger or less adventurous groups, and it’s a lot of fun. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete the Rope Maze. How fast can you and your students reach the center of the maze to ring the bell?Suitable for all ages.

Mini Maze:

Our miniature cornfield maze is separate from but adjacent to our large maze. Suitable for young adventurers in preschool to Grade 2.

Lower Maze (fall only)

This small corn maze is one-third of our large 10-acre Maize Quest maze, which has a different theme every year. Our theme for 2007 is Manhattan!! It'll take about one hour to complete as the children take the challenge of our most adventurous maze. While in the maze, the goal is to find the answers to some of the clues. This maze is especially designed for the older elementary school adventurers. Suitable for children in grades 3 and above.

Tile Maze

The tile maze uses just 270 16-inch tiles, but here’s the catch—you can only make right turns! Suitable for all ages.

Hayride/small pumpkin (fall only)

Tractor-pulled haywagon ride around the farm and ending in the pumpkin patch to pick the perfect small pumpkin.

Miner Max NEW in 2007!

How does coal turn into diamonds? Your class will discover facts like this in our fun, construction-themed maze. The kids will help Miner Max explore the maze while learning about mining, gemstones and natural resources. At the end, you may choose to do some gemstone mining for an additional charge. Children take their mining rough to our sluide to find their hidden gemstones.

Cider and fresh Stony Hill apple crisp donuts

Locally made cider and our own apple crisp donuts. A special way to start or finish your visit to our farm.

Why our mazes are special

The mazes here at Stony Hill aren’t typical cornfield mazes. They’re educational. They’re exciting. They’re by Maize Quest! We’ve teamed with Maize Quest to bring our customers a professionally designed maze with a different theme every year. The theme provides the educational component of your visit to the maze. As visitors explore the maze, they answer theme-related questions as they walk through the stalks. Our maze promotes teamwork and can help your students get to know each other.

Reservations

All school groups must pre-book their visit. Call us at (908) 879-2908 to make your reservation. Please use our Field Trip Calculator to help you plan your visit.

Farm hours

The Classroom in the Barn and Rope Maze are available throughout the school year. The Lower Maze is open for school groups weekdays during September and October. Bunny Bonanza is a great spring-time option.

What to bring

For outdoor activities, bring water bottles and sun protection for your journey through the mazes and around the farm. You may also want to bring snacks or lunch for the children to enjoy in our picnic area after their farm visit.

Before you arrive

Remind your group to respect other visitors and to be on their best behavior. If you’re going through one of the mazes, you’ll need to assign one adult to each team of four to six children.

Bring your confirmation e-mail or letter with your tour number printed on it. Fill out the entire Field Trip Calculator. Present the form and the confirmation with tour number and totals for each kind of ticket to our staff. One person will pay for the entire group; we will not collect money from each individual person in your group. You may want to have everyone prepay you so that you’re prepared to pay us. We accept cash (it’s fastest) or checks (with driver’s license only).

Other farm activities

Stony Hill has a variety of livestock, including goats, rabbits, buffalo and chickens to pet and feed. We also have a working bee hive, from which we make honey. We have a picnic area available and encourage groups to follow their farm adventure with lunch or a snack in the picnic area.

How can I incorporate agriculture into my lesson plans?

Agriculture is a great tool to teach children about many subjects. Some suggestions to get you started:

* Talk about the history of farming (or of a particular crop, such as corn) in social studies

* In language class, talk about different words, what they mean, how to spell them and where they came from.

* In science class, discuss weather and how rain and sunshine are needed to help plants grow.

* In math, you could talk about how many chickens are needed to lay 12 eggs in one day or how many apples are in a bushel.