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March 4, 2024
Spring Break Frontier Fun Days at Frontier Times Museum
By Rebecca Norton
Frontier Times Museum, Executive Director
Spring Break family fun can be found in Bandera. The Frontier Times Museum is hosting Frontier Days filled with exciting activities every day during Spring Break, March 11 to March 15. Each day offers different activities along with the museum’s regular fun like the Frontier Scavenger Hunt and the Discovery Corral children’s play area. Free wagon rides will be happening as well all week long. The fun goes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day.
Monday, March 11 is Reptile Round-Up Day. The museum welcomes expert snake handlers from the Hill Country Reptile Gardens. Lizards, snakes, and all things slithery will be on display with reptile shows happening at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., where you can hold a live Boa. In addition, face painting and arts and crafts will be offered where you can make a Rock Snake to take home.
Tuesday, March 12, is Dig Those Fossil Day. Fossil expert Steve Shirley will present ancient fossils from the Texas Hill Country with shows at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Steve will also be available for you to bring your own fossils to be identified. Don’t have a fossil – no problem, you can make your own fossil or dig for one in the museum’s Fossil Dig. See real fossilized Dinosaur Eggs and do a watercolor painting of an ammonite fossil.
Wednesday is Sheep Shenanigans with Jennifer Rimmrichter of Sheepwalk Ranch and Dale and Bonnie Naumann of Naumann Angoras. Jennifer will give demonstrations on how wool is processed from the sheep to make fun objects and clothing. There will be lots of hungry baby lambs on hand to feed.
Can you milk a goat? Give it a try on Thursday’s Pioneer Day. Be transported back to the Little House on the Prairie with pioneer farm activities. Make your own doll to take home out of corn husks or rags and play with pioneer toys and games.
On Friday, March 15, mosey on up to a real chuckwagon and enjoy cowboy coffee and peach cobbler while listening to Cowboy singer Lew Pewterbaugh. Sit around the campfire and be a part of a cowboy camp. Cowboys need horses, so Cowgirl Jacque Jackson will be on hand to teach the young whippersnappers how to groom and “brand” a real horse.
The Frontier Times Museum is one of the oldest history museums in Texas, with an “eclectic and eccentric” collection of art and treasures gathered over 90 years. On display are fossils, old-time photos, pioneer relics, and curiosities such as a shrunken head and a two-faced goat. The museum also honors the American cowboy with displays of local rodeo champions and an extensive collection of barbed wire and western hats.
The museum is open Monday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Museum admission is $8 per adult, $5 for seniors (65 or over), $4 per child (6 to 17) with the little buckaroos, 5 or younger, free. All Spring Break activities are free with museum admission.
Want to visit more than one day? Become a museum Family Member for $50 and get two adults and four children in for free all week and for an entire year.
For details and times, visit www.frontiertimesmuseum.org or visit the museum’s Facebook page. The Frontier Times Museum is located at 510 13th Street, Bandera, Texas.
Monday, March 11 is Reptile Round-Up Day. The museum welcomes expert snake handlers from the Hill Country Reptile Gardens. Lizards, snakes, and all things slithery will be on display with reptile shows happening at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., where you can hold a live Boa. In addition, face painting and arts and crafts will be offered where you can make a Rock Snake to take home.
Tuesday, March 12, is Dig Those Fossil Day. Fossil expert Steve Shirley will present ancient fossils from the Texas Hill Country with shows at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Steve will also be available for you to bring your own fossils to be identified. Don’t have a fossil – no problem, you can make your own fossil or dig for one in the museum’s Fossil Dig. See real fossilized Dinosaur Eggs and do a watercolor painting of an ammonite fossil.
Wednesday is Sheep Shenanigans with Jennifer Rimmrichter of Sheepwalk Ranch and Dale and Bonnie Naumann of Naumann Angoras. Jennifer will give demonstrations on how wool is processed from the sheep to make fun objects and clothing. There will be lots of hungry baby lambs on hand to feed.
Can you milk a goat? Give it a try on Thursday’s Pioneer Day. Be transported back to the Little House on the Prairie with pioneer farm activities. Make your own doll to take home out of corn husks or rags and play with pioneer toys and games.
On Friday, March 15, mosey on up to a real chuckwagon and enjoy cowboy coffee and peach cobbler while listening to Cowboy singer Lew Pewterbaugh. Sit around the campfire and be a part of a cowboy camp. Cowboys need horses, so Cowgirl Jacque Jackson will be on hand to teach the young whippersnappers how to groom and “brand” a real horse.
The Frontier Times Museum is one of the oldest history museums in Texas, with an “eclectic and eccentric” collection of art and treasures gathered over 90 years. On display are fossils, old-time photos, pioneer relics, and curiosities such as a shrunken head and a two-faced goat. The museum also honors the American cowboy with displays of local rodeo champions and an extensive collection of barbed wire and western hats.
The museum is open Monday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Museum admission is $8 per adult, $5 for seniors (65 or over), $4 per child (6 to 17) with the little buckaroos, 5 or younger, free. All Spring Break activities are free with museum admission.
Want to visit more than one day? Become a museum Family Member for $50 and get two adults and four children in for free all week and for an entire year.
For details and times, visit www.frontiertimesmuseum.org or visit the museum’s Facebook page. The Frontier Times Museum is located at 510 13th Street, Bandera, Texas.